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From acquiring some sort of chameleon-like ability to change colors and adopt patterns, to donning elaborate makeup and costumes in order to blend with our surroundings, to being straight up invisible, we’ve contemplated many ways to render ourselves imperceptible. Executing those plans, however, has proven difficult, and we’ve never done anything nearly as convincing as [...]

We’d like to say that it qualifies as some kind of public performance art, like defacing some symbolic monument whose legacy you disagree with (like the scene in Life of Brian where the titular Messiah defaces the Roman temple), but really the practice of pretending to have sex with statues is just an obvious and [...]

Between wacky Japanese game shows and French performance artist pranks, there’s been something of a Pacman meme going around lately. And what web trend would be worthy of the name without its very own listicle? Unreality took care of that with their list of 10 Live Action Pacman Videos, our favorite of which (sort of [...]

There’s something incredibly uplifting and optimistic, we think, in the imagery of art made from huge groups of people arranged into patterns and shapes. It’s a fascinating testament to an innate collaborative impulse, a shared desire to come together and contribute to something greater than the sum of our parts.
Whenever we’re feeling down on humanity [...]

Informally, this week is Art Fair Week in New York, with a half-dozen large-scale festivals providing showrooms for galleries from all over the world to display their artists’ work. One of the newer fairs in this year’s mix is Fountain New York, which features Marcel Duchamp’s iconic urinal scultpure as its logo. Contemplating their snazzy [...]

We’ve been seeing a lot of these street artworks lately that approximate an impression of depth when viewed from a specific angle (a technique called anamorphis). As Oddee’s listicle of 20 Awesome 3D Pavement Illusions shows, this genre of artwork incorporates some elements of performance art and, like any provocative kind of art, has already [...]

In what is perhaps the most brilliant anti-gentrification performance art-as-protest achievement ever, a serial arsonist has been lighting luxury condo construction site porta-potties ablaze (pictured at right) all over the rapidly developing Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
As if news of this hilarious and brilliant string of anti-gentrification vandalism wasn’t enough, one foreman has reacted [...]