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Now that Gallery Girls is over (probably never to return, which let's be honest won't be too much of a tragedy for anyone), and in an effort to make the start of the week suck a little less, Monday nights have become art/artist documentary night.
On the screen tonight: Chiara Clemente's Our City Dreams (profiling New York City-based artists Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero (1926-2009)).
On the menu: pasta puttanesca (appropriately cheap and dirty, like some of the best parts of the city).
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Image of the Day
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Rest Energy by Marina Abramovic and Ulay – on display at MoMA as part of Abramovic's show The Artist Is Present.
The Artist Is Present is happening for one more month at MoMA.
Rest Energy by Marina Abramovic and Ulay – on display at MoMA as part of Abramovic's show The Artist Is Present. Standing across from one another in slated position. Looking each other in the eye. I hold a bow and Ulay holds the string with the arrow pointing directly to my heart. Microphones attached to both hearts recording the increasing number of heart beats.Here's what that looks like:
The Artist Is Present is happening for one more month at MoMA.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Visitor Is Present
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Some photos I snapped of Marina Abramovic at MoMA. For her current solo exhibition, The Artist Is Present, Abramovic is sitting still at this table all day, every day, through May 31st, unflinchingly maintaining eye contact with whomever volunteers to sit across from her and look back.
This volunteer was there when I arrived and remained there for the rest of my two-hour visit to the museum.
The energy that seems to radiate from two strangers looking at each other in this way is so intense that to watch them feels almost voyeuristic. At the same time, it made me think about universal love and the transcendence of the physical – about a soul interacting with another soul.
Shit was crazy intense.
Read an entertaining article about this part of the show, and Holland Cotter's full review at nytimes.com (there are also several slideshows and interactive features).
Info about The Artist Is Present, which is up through May 31st, at MoMA.org.
Some photos I snapped of Marina Abramovic at MoMA. For her current solo exhibition, The Artist Is Present, Abramovic is sitting still at this table all day, every day, through May 31st, unflinchingly maintaining eye contact with whomever volunteers to sit across from her and look back.
This volunteer was there when I arrived and remained there for the rest of my two-hour visit to the museum.
The energy that seems to radiate from two strangers looking at each other in this way is so intense that to watch them feels almost voyeuristic. At the same time, it made me think about universal love and the transcendence of the physical – about a soul interacting with another soul.
Shit was crazy intense.Read an entertaining article about this part of the show, and Holland Cotter's full review at nytimes.com (there are also several slideshows and interactive features).
Info about The Artist Is Present, which is up through May 31st, at MoMA.org.
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