How to Use performance art in a Sentence

performance art

noun
  • It’s been as much performance art as a mere recitation of a set list.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
  • Wow, what performance art, this guy is a weirdo or wacko,’ hey, that’s fine, too.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 25 May 2018
  • Rarely has scandal looked so much like performance art.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Her work has been steady, whether on stage, on screen or doing performance art on the street.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This recipe is salad as performance art.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The live version of the track strikes me as a cosplay of performance art.
    — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Lee is the home of a creative and performance art magnet school.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 3 Feb. 2020
  • People ask me what all this support will do for performance art.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
  • At that moment, the performance art sort of clicked for Fink.
    — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2020
  • 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
  • The school, however, is more known for performance arts than sports.
    — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • First, both threats are fanciful to the point of serving as performance art.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
  • Also, artists will be brought in to create and sculpt works as live-performance art for passersby.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • There’s a fund that is set aside to make people believe in art, and again, believe in performance art.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Some acting, some performance art, a bit of stand-up, waiting tables.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Mitski used a wooden table and chair as stage props to present a set that was part performance art.
    — Amit Gurbaxani, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Today, his foray into the arts is less about performance art and more about painting with his feet.
    — jsonline.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The preferred currency of performance art is shock, or so the greatest hits tell us.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The hair is performance art, a palmier one day, a Medusa nest of towering curls the next.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Maya, like Bassichis, did an act that was a bit standup, a bit performance art, broken up by dreamy, oddball songs.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • Unmoored by facts or norms, Trump has turned his debate lecterns into props in his performance art piece.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That seemed correct, a spontaneous piece of performance art.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • His mother was a fortune teller and a clown, and introduced him to the world of performance art.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The goal was to saturate patrons with the best performance art that local creatives could muster.
    — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
  • By the end, Mojave felt more like an performance art exhibition than a stage in the desert.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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