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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Annoying
Marina Abramovic, the self-proclaimed Grandmother of Performance Art, has published a memoir and is doing a lot of press to promote it. In a recent interview, she described an average day. At 7:30, after breakfast, she calls her “lover,” an … Continue reading
The Nothingness of Marina Abramovic
If you’ve always sensed some nothingness in the work of celebrated performance diva artist Marina Abramovic, you’ll be glad to know it’s official. Discussing her new work at the Serpentine Gallery, her first since The Artist is Present, she says: … Continue reading
The Art of Self Harming
Mary Coble is a dedicated artist whose 2005 performance piece, Note to Self, involved being tattooed with the names of 436 gay, lesbian, bi and transgendered people who died as a result of hate crimes. The performance took 12 hours. … Continue reading
Vanessa Beecroft: What a Fucking Cunt!™
Vanessa Beecroft is an “artist” whose trip to Sudan is documented in a new film called “The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins.” Beecroft evidently had no idea how damning this documentary would be. According to one review: The doc … Continue reading
Ordealism: The Art of Suffering
In the current New Yorker, there is a long profile of the performance artist Marina Abramovic that caused me to wonder: Is my life actually Art? Abramovic has been provoking and shocking people for thirty years. Next week, MOMA is … Continue reading