A timeline of the most pivotal moments in the medium’s history.

Video still from Christophe Chassol’s “BIG SUN” (2014) in ‘EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean’ at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (all photos by the author for ...

From art reveals to speed painting, artists today are transforming the art-making process into performance and their studios ...

At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. At Dia Beacon, a retrospective ...

Last weekend a group of people were blindfolded and led through a path littered with obstacles while a narrator offered mysterious commentary like “If you speak plainly, you are punished” and “If you ...

How do performance and installation artists make the transition from the structure of school to the chaos and uncertainty of the real world? [nueBox], a nonprofit arts organization, has some ideas.

Jessica Lopez Lyman's new book, “Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities," explores how many artists have doubled as organizers and activists to make space for ...