Welcome to Action Painting – a phrase coined by American critic Harold Rosenberg – and to the concept of painting as a form of performance. Pollock’s engagement with the canvas was primarily physical ...

Photo of The Poetry & Paint Experience co-creators Donnie Destro, left, and Herman “Bes” Bright courtesy of the artists Created by Herman “Bes” Bright and Donnie Destro, The Poetry & Paint Experience ...

All eyes were on Ryan Hawk. The lanky college undergrad asked everyone in the audience of about 40 people scattered around the Bushwick loft to stand and circle him. He began by applying a can of ...

Cheryl Donegan’s work is in art history books and in major museum collections. But she’s usually identified as a “video artist,” based on her funny, fierce and feminist video work of the 1990s.

In his masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never sold a ...

If anyone can define "performance art," it would seem to be performances artists. And yet, La Pocha Nostra -- which Momentary spokeswoman Michelle Moore calls "an international superstar performance ...

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