Long Day's Journey: 8 Hours With Artist Marina Abramović

Last Thursday, I spent almost eight hours in line to sit with Marina Abramović at the Museum of Modern Art.

Last Thursday, I spent almost eight hours in line to sit with Marina Abramović at the Museum of Modern Art.
When people sit down opposite performance artist Marina Abramović, many of them begin to cry. Which either means Abramović's "The Artist is Present" is a very moving work, or that the Serbian is kicking them under the table. [MarinaAmbramovicMadeMeCry]
One of the most salient qualities about the 51-year relationship between Christo and Jeanne-Claude is that they were true partners. Theirs was no artist/muse codependency, nor the union of a creative soul and his harried helpmate. This pair was equal.
In 1968, Salvador Dalí starred in an ad for Lanvin chocolates (no relation to the fashion house). André Breton called Dalí an anagram of his name: "Avida Dollars." [YouTube]
What could be more natural than your favorite pop artist/early career advertising hack posing with a marching drum and a cast member from Cats? This Japanese ad from the 1970s has something to with videotape. We think. [Copyranter]
This Los Angeles man paid $12,000 for two limited-edition prints by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. But what he actually bought was off-cuts of fabric left over from the Louis Vuitton factory, stretched and mounted.
Photographer Ariana Page Russell has an autoimmune condition called dermatographia. Whenever her skin is even lightly scratched, her capillaries dilate and painless, temporary red welts form. So Russell creates art. On her skin.