In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, “Cut Piece” and other ...

Two women were arrested by French police on Monday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet, a provocative painting centered on a nude torso ...

This weekend, students, faculty and community members attended a two-day event exploring feminist art in Collegetown. The symposium, titled ‘“Feminist Directions: Performance, Power, and Leadership” ...

The Russian feminist performance art collective Pussy Riot is set to be the subject of a new scripted TV series about its cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova. The activist is an outspoken critic of Putin ...

A timely exhibition at London Performance Studios will highlight an influential period of 20th Century theatre history. From the end of the 1960s until the early 1990s, radical performance made by ...

Laughter in the Archives: Jackie "Moms" Mabley -- I Love You Bitches Back: Spect-Actors and Affective Freedom in I Coulda Been Your Cellmate! -- The Black Queer Citizenship of Wanda Sykes -- ...

Introduction: Performing objects -- Mammy memory : the curious case of Joice Heth, the ancient Negress -- Passing performances : Ellen Craft's fugitive selves -- Plastic possibilities : Adrian Piper's ...