From Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga: how pop embraced performance art

How did performance art – once so reviled – come to be a pop staple? Alexis Petridis hears from Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and others about its journey to mainstream acceptanceThe first time Marina Abramovic heard Antony Hegarty sing, she says, she burst into tears. "It was at a concert of Rufus Wainwright," explains the woman who sternly minds you not to refer to her as "the grandmother of performance art", despite a 40-year career that's variously involved inhaling carbon dioxide until she pas...

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