RoseLee Goldberg of New York’s Performa has long encouraged visual artists to take the leap of translating their ideas into ...

At around 7 a.m. during his 24-hour performance 'Oysterknife,' Greenberg’s body shut down and he passed out. Miles Greenberg, Admiration Is the Furthest Thing from Understanding (2021) at the Bangkok ...

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, ...

If there’s one thing Erica Felicella knows how to do it’s to push her emotional and physical limits. From spending 48 hours in a transparent box, to lying motionless from sunrise to sunset as viewers ...

On the latest episode of Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Chappell Roan explained how tricky it was to remove the green body paint from her 2024 Governors Ball performance. Getty Images ...

Naked bodies of all shapes and sizes became artists’ canvases at a public art exhibition. Andy Golub, the founder of NYC Bodypainting Day, painted a model at the event’s 10th and final installment on ...

The Grammy-winning pop star dressed as the Statue of Liberty for her June 2024 performance. Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

From Yoko Ono’s conceptual bodily performances to Natacha Stolz’s SpaghettiOs exhibition that flummoxed the netizens of the early aughts, performance art is equal parts avant-garde, action-oriented, ...

July 21 (UPI) --The World Bodypainting Festival begins Thursday in Klagenfurt, Austria, bringing together hundreds of body painting artists and enthusiasts from around the globe. The three-day ...

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.

In the midst of the new coronavirus pandemic, many artists have still been trying to work. Brandon McGill, a local body painter, has carried on with his new project "Tarot" while staying at home. The ...