Performance Art Empress Sits, Stares at MoMA Visitors: Review
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Marina Abramovic , the empress of international performance art, sits silently at a small table in the soaring atrium at New York’s Museum of Modern Art .
You can take the chair opposite her and face the raven- haired artist for as long as you can bear to return her unwavering gaze.
The 63-year-old Serbian native is the center of attention through May 31 at her MoMa retrospective, “ Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present .”
Upstairs, on MoMA’s sixth floor, you can find her younger self in a chronological display of the four decades she has spent suffering for her work in performance, photography and video.
In one video, she brushes her scalp vigorously enough to draw blood while grunting the lines, “Art is beautiful. Artist must be beautiful.”
Across the room, a long table set with objects that include sharp knives, duct tape, gauze, after-shave lotion, a long- stemmed rose and a loaded gun introduces 1974’s notorious piece, “Rhythm O.”
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