Marina Abramovic has been refining her particular brand of grueling performance art for nearly 40 years now, but you’d have been hard pressed to find anyone who’d heard of her until two years ago. That’s when the Museum of Modern Art hosted their headline-making Abramovic retrospective, complete with naked people and a silent “opera” in which Abramovic sat for 700 unbroken hours as visitors took turns staring (and crying) into her eyes. A Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry Tumblr sprang up, then a homemade Abramovic retrospective video game, and online at least, she was officially an artist people had heard of.
This April, the Yugoslav-born Abramovic will go one step further, with her American television debut. She joins a roster of high-profile international artists, including Ai Weiwei, whose work will be featured on PBS’ month-long showcase series “Art21.” Abramovic’s collaborative 18-minute piece -- part of the show’s second episode,...
This April, the Yugoslav-born Abramovic will go one step further, with her American television debut. She joins a roster of high-profile international artists, including Ai Weiwei, whose work will be featured on PBS’ month-long showcase series “Art21.” Abramovic’s collaborative 18-minute piece -- part of the show’s second episode,...
- 3/15/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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