In 1863 life forever changed for African American slaves when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced. An interesting video clip shows two actors reading excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and a letter by a slave named Annie...

Viewers of a short video learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scholars explore the Golden Age of Broadway, which produced classics like Annie Get Your Gun and...

In this video [4:01] learn about the drip-style painting techniques of one of Jackson Pollock, one of America's most iconic and influential painters.

In this video [2:47] Carolee Schneeman describes her piece "Up to and Including Her Limits" as being in discussion with Jackson Pollock. Working with 3/4-inch manila rope in creating an aerial suspended kinetic work, she took off my...

A video [5:39] of artist Michael Landy discussing his performance art Break Down inspired by the work of Swiss painter and sculpture Jean Tinguely.

A video [9:10] in which artist Harold Offeh worked in collaboration with students and teachers to explore live art performance and its relationship to documentation and archive.

A video [4:21] of artist Tania Bruguera discussing her performance art "Immigrant Movement International" featuring immigration and polygraph tests for visitors before being admitted into the inner gallery at Tate Modern in London.

A video [4:00] of artist Tania Bruguera discussing her performance art Tatlin's Whisper #5 featuring mounted police controlling the crowd at Tate Modern in London.

What happens when a group of performance artists goes undercover at Tate Modern? Ordinary activities like standing in a queue, traveling on an escalator, or listening to a gallery tour guide take on strange new dimensions. Artists Dora...

What if you woke up one morning as the opposite sex? Israeli artist Keren Cytter's live piece bridges dance, theatre, and film in a performance that envisions a world in which every man has mysteriously woken up in the morning as a...

In this video The Pollen Trail Dancers perform the Navajo Shaker Dance, also called the Buffalo Dance, a healing dance that is part of the Fire Dance Ceremony. Included are teaching tips, an activity, and additional background...

In this film we join Marina Abramovic as she shares highlights from her performance works, discusses the amount of work that goes into staging one of her ambitious pieces, and tells us why it's never easy to explain what she does. [4:10]

Catch up with artist Martin Creed as he stages a performance piece at Tate Britain. [4:46]

Watch as artist Thomas Hirschhorn stages his participatory artwork Flamme Eternelle at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. [5:15]

'It's a truly participatory work,' says artist Suzanne Lacy of her performance Silver Action, in which hundreds of women over sixty gathered within the gallery, shared their stories of activism and protest, and drew the audience in. [3:55]

Ryan Gander's Locked Room Scenario purports to be a group exhibition in a London warehouse. But as you walk through the show, you might come to realize that the entire show has been made up by the artist! Gander creates an environment in...

New York-based Japanese artist Ei Arakawa creates a series of collaborative performances and actions during a residency at Tate Modern. Watch as Arakawa uses collaboration to create a work of art that depends upon audience members...

Printing Show is a recreation of Daido Moriyama's 1974 performance of the same name. At this event, participants created their own limited-edition photobook of images by Moriyama, arranging the images in whatever order they chose. Listen...