Tashi Norbu’s live painting performance, November 6, 2018, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Thangka simply means “Tibetan hanging scroll.

Jackson Pollock is one of the spiritual fathers of performance painting, according to the curator of a major new show at Tate Modern, “but it is not what he would have wanted”. A Bigger Splash: ...

A valuable Banksy painting, which shocked onlookers as it partially shredded itself after being sold at auction, is now on display in Baden-Baden, Germany until March 3. Just after the hammer went ...

The screen has pride of place, so all eyes are on the heroic artist; he is of prime importance and the work is perceived as a byproduct of his creative drive. Welcome to Action Painting – a phrase ...

A pair of paintings sit apart from the rest at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where “Painting in Motion,” the first-ever solo museum exhibition featuring Chinese-American artist Shen Wei, opened ...

The Tate Modern’s new exhibition asks how painting and performance art met – and parted. By Juliet Jacques Only ten minutes long, Hans Namuth’s film of Jackson Pollock painting caused a major crisis ...

If you've ever gazed into the beautiful void that is Gustav Courbet's "The Origin of the World," you're probably familiar with just how provocative (and NSFW) the painting is. As the title cleverly ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Don’t be deceived by the title. A Bigger Splash, Tate’s final show of 2012, takes its name from David Hockney’s ...