How to Use performance art in a Sentence

performance art

noun
  • The live version of the track strikes me as a cosplay of performance art.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • It’s been as much performance art as a mere recitation of a set list.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
  • Saul takes this talent, if that’s the right word, and uses it for a kind of performance art.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • It’s also really good performance art for the crowd to watch the process of art.
    Laura Latzko, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The hair is performance art, a palmier one day, a Medusa nest of towering curls the next.
    Karen Heller, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The news that the Pyramid Club was a hotspot for drag and performance art soon spread throughout the neighborhood.
    Hugh Ryan, Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Ori: Our friends would have concerts at night and performance art during the day.
    Jaelani Turner-Williams, SPIN, 6 July 2022
  • Nothing wrong with a little performance art for the fans.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Mar. 2023
  • To miss it is to miss performance art at its most impactful.
    Alysia Nicole Harris, Dallas News, 8 July 2021
  • His mother was a fortune teller and a clown, and introduced him to the world of performance art.
    The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Below, the doyenne of the art world reflects on bringing the retrospective to life, and the future of performance art.
    Vogue, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Round my way, the upkeep of yards and cars was part performance art and part competitive sport.
    Michaela Angela Davis, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Goldberg cracked in response — Haines jumped in with a bit of performance art to illustrate a new point.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2023
  • What do Joe Rogan, a butcher shop, and an onstage performance art piece by the 1975 have in common?
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In theory, ballet, or any performance art could be an Olympic event so long as it can be judged and scored.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Those 90 seconds 53 years ago were a grand display of performance, of art and of performance art.
    New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Dolly Parton’s public life for the last 60 years has been like a daily act of performance art.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Their street performances are a sort of performance art.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Around the same time, Ray was alert to emergent trends in post-minimalist performance art.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • This is why performance art by a member of congress carries more weight than a decision by the Supreme Court.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Scheinert: Then the whole movie would be this weird performance art piece about a woman being in a movie on accident.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022
  • For those trying to split their time between performance art and sports, a massive screen on the festival grounds broadcasts the track events live.
    oregonlive, 15 July 2022
  • Singing, dancing, dishing — to her, it’s all performance art.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The event also includes performance art, music, and more on the main stage, as well as food and beverage vendors.
    oregonlive, 13 July 2022
  • Dozens of site-specific theater, dance, music and performance art pieces will be presented on the Shell grounds by artists from all over the world.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Although known to many as a punk band, they are best understood as artists working in the tradition of performance art.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Diners flocked to El Bulli not merely to eat well but for a four-hour adventure in performance art.
    Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Creators feel the burden of performance art while consumers struggle to follow along at their own pace.
    Frederick Daso, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • But in recent years, even the performance art has lost its political edge.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2022
  • What Rocky and the team have accomplished is a creative and interesting piece of performance art.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023

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