| YOKO | Conceptual and performance artist known for Painting to Be Stepped On (1960) (4) |
| EPAUNINE | Canadian poet and performance artist known also as Tekahionwake, _. ___ Johnson (b.1861 d.1913) |
| MARINA | ____ Abramovic, Serbian conceptual and performance artist born in 1946 (6) |
| KENNEDYNIXON | Twosome that debated U.S. policies on 1960 television broadcasts |
| ABRAMOVIC | Marina ___, Serbian conceptual and performance artist whose first major UK exhibition was originally set to open last month at "47 Across" but has been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| ONO | Conceptual artist behind Painting to Be Stepped On |
| ANDY | Comedian and performance artist who played Latka Gravas in US television sitcom Taxi (4,7) (see 21A) |
| CRAN | Canadian artist known for painting optical illusions |
| ROEG | Nicolas ___ , English film director who made Don't Look Now and Performance, d. 2018 (4) |
| PAINSTAKING | Being ever so careful to ask for a painting to be done (11) |
| KEANE | Margaret ___, artist known for painting subjects with big eyes |
| MARKROTHKO | *Artist known for painting rectangular regions of color (see this answer's first 2 letters last 2) |
| KAUFMAN | Comedian and performance artist who played Latka Gravas in US television sitcom Taxi (4,7) (see 15A) |
| GASPEDAL | It may be stepped on to accelerate |
| ANDYKAUFMAN | Comedian and performance artist who played Latka Gravas in US television sitcom Taxi |
| HEARTFELT | Ambassador, touched, taking painting to be sincere (9) |
| ARCHITRAVE | Frame paintings to be put up in document store (10) |
| GAS | Careless talk that may be stepped on |
| THEGAS | May be stepped on hastily (3,3) |
| LINTON | __ Kwesi Johnson, poet and performance artist (6) |
