MrBeast and Performance Art

How his extreme videos mirror the groundbreaking work of one of the world's greatest performance artists.

In 2019, my first year of art school, I took a very important class called Intro to Contemporary Art (ICAP). This is debatably the most important course I have ever taken in my entire life, as it was the first time I was ever exposed to the world of contemporary art.

Prior to taking this course, I was under the impression that modern art was limited to …