performance art
noun
: a nontraditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, or painting
performance artist
noun
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In 1998, Alexander McQueen staged a frenetic moment of performance art when two robots spray-painted a dress worn by model Shalom Harlow.
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
Maybe Belichick has decided to turn his life into contemporary performance art.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
But season one degenerated into self-indulgent performance art when Fielder chose to place himself at the center of the action as part of an extended exploration of his readiness to be a parent.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Fame itself became a performance art for him, as well as a way to prove that there was no limit to the worlds that hip-hop could conquer or the spoils that Mr. Combs could earn.
—Ben Sisario, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
Maybe Belichick has decided to turn his life into contemporary performance art.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
But season one degenerated into self-indulgent performance art when Fielder chose to place himself at the center of the action as part of an extended exploration of his readiness to be a parent.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Fame itself became a performance art for him, as well as a way to prove that there was no limit to the worlds that hip-hop could conquer or the spoils that Mr. Combs could earn.
—Ben Sisario, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Performance art.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/performance%20art. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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