BOSTON — There are so many layers to Marilyn Arsem’s piece at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) that it’s a bit hard to know where to start. So I’ll start with articulating the most straightforward layers ...

Performance art has been sellable for decades, but galleries now see new potential in attracting Gen Z collectors. Visitors stand next to an artwork of Félix González-Torres’s 1991 Untitled (Go-Go ...

Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of punishing performance art. By Will Heinrich The fall calendar is full of exciting ...

Maia Chao, “Being Moved” (2026) (photo Amelia Golden, courtesy Maia Chao and the Whitney Museum of American Art) There’s a whole choreography surrounding art: the bodily habits of spectatorship, the ...

A timeline of the most pivotal moments in the medium’s history. By Julia Halperin “The term ‘performance art’ is a little overused,” admits the curator Klaus Biesenbach, 59. “It’s a bit like how ...

The quarterly Museum Artist list for June 2026 includes Jeffrey Gibson, Sky Hopinka, Kara Walker, and Betye Saar.

For decades, the National Museum of Mexican Art’s performance space has hosted leaders, artists, writers and performers from across Latin America and the Chicago area, with its programming only ...