The Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2026 exhibition schedule, a combination of bold commissions, collaborations and collection-focused presentations that traverse performance, ...

Cover -- The Performing Observer -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Original Sources of Publication -- Preface: The Performing ...

Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts’ Time-Based Art Festival grew into more than a local tradition in its 20-plus-year run. It’s an institution for the city’s visual and performance art community ...

Performance art is not for everyone. Even as symbolic movements, seeing the artist’s body intimate acts of self-inflicted violence, humiliation, or sex are always challenging — even for the willing ...

The art world is crowded, but some voices rise above. In this series, we spotlight 25 emerging artists who have been defining 2025: painters pushing the canvas forward, sculptors reinventing form, ...

Before OntheBoards.tv, high-quality documentation of contemporary performance was almost impossible to find. Through the site, fans of contemporary performance have found better access to HD-quality ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

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The city has long been synonymous with southwestern art, but a growing constellation of contemporary galleries and artist-run ...

A Dialogue Between Motion and Media is a NYSCA-funded, one-night-only interdisciplinary performance directed by Buffalo-based ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...