Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...

Performance artist Erica Felicella transforms everyday spaces into immersive stages. Originally just a pit stop, Dallas has become home for Erica Felicella. This North Texas performance artist ...

Twice a week this spring, a nude performance artist sits inside a small wooden box in a New York gallery waiting to be touched. Through holes on each side of the box, visitors’ arms reach in and out, ...

Boliver and Grande grasp and pull at the fishing lines attached to face, torso, and limbs. (click to enlarge) A small balancing board lay between the two women, and they took turns climbing atop, ...

Ayana Evans’s performance for If Keisha Jumped Off a Bridge, Would You Do It Too? (photo by Jennifer Coard) I am convinced that the people who show up to Ayana Evans’s performances genuinely love and ...

Is the body a flesh-encased machine responding solely to the commands of our brain, or does the body actually help shape the mind? Madeline McNeill's new multimedia show Bodies in Conversation ...

In 1918, New York City laid claim to 20 Yiddish theaters, with one seating 2,500. Chicago possessed four, Philadelphia three and Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark and St.

Editor’s Note: See highlights from CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour’s interview, which aired Tuesday on “Amanpour,” above. London, UK (CNN) — For an artist whose work focuses so ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents pioneering performance artist Marina Abramović in Conversation with Pico Iyer, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. “Renowned conceptual ...