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 -
Or just some kind of performance art to save his own life?
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Dec. 2020 -
At that moment, the performance art sort of clicked for Fink.
— Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2020 -
Wow, what performance art, this guy is a weirdo or wacko,’ hey, that’s fine, too.
— Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 25 May 2018 -
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 -
Lee is the home of a creative and performance art magnet school.
— Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 3 Feb. 2020 -
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 -
There’s a fund that is set aside to make people believe in art, and again, believe in performance art.
— Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024 -
At times, the UVa defense is less a matter of strategy than a piece of performance art.
— Andy Staples, SI.com, 7 Mar. 2018 -
His mother was a fortune teller and a clown, and introduced him to the world of performance art.
— The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022 -
Also, artists will be brought in to create and sculpt works as live-performance art for passersby.
— Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018 -
The quieter of the two, but hardly the lesser character, Lily has lots and lots of feelings and her own brand of performance art.
— Colin Covert, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2018 -
Below, the doyenne of the art world reflects on bringing the retrospective to life, and the future of performance art.
— Vogue, 23 Sep. 2023 -
There's an element of performance art to this album that forces me to go to places that are exciting and new to me.
— Fred Bronson, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2018 -
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 -
People ask me what all this support will do for performance art.
— Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019 -
Textile art meets performance art in a room filled with works that may well have been inspired by Clark’s time in Richmond.
— Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2021 -
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 -
For this part of the performance art happening, judy pressed the entire audience to put on blindfolds and feel their way around in the dark.
— Jonathan Takiff, Philly.com, 4 June 2018 -
During the segment, dozens of dancers took the stage for a performance art piece, embracing and twirling around each other.
— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024 -
Thus the hedge-climbing, a bit of performance art so buried in nature the camera sometimes can’t even capture it.
— Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018 -
One of the most exciting aspects of the Nova Gorica-Gorizia celebration is the multimedia and performance art set in natural landscapes.
— David Nikel, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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