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from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

700-Hour Silent Opera Reaches Finale at MoMA<\/h1>\n

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Ruth Fremson\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

Marina Abramovic in the MoMA atrium. In her performance piece \u201cThe Artist Is Present,\u201d visitors sit in a chair silently facing her.\u00a0<\/em>More Photos \u00bb<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By\u00a0HOLLAND COTTER<\/a>
\nPublished: May 30, 2010<\/p>\n

At 5 p.m. Monday one of the longest pieces of performance art on record, and certainly the one with the largest audience, comes to an end. Since her retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art on March 14, the artist\u00a0Marina Abramovic<\/a>\u00a0has been sitting, six days a week, seven hours a day in a plain chair, under bright klieg lights, in\u00a0MoMA<\/a>\u2019s towering atrium. When she leaves that chair Monday for the last time, she will have clocked 700 hours of sitting.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the museum were invited, first come first served, to sit in a chair facing her and silently return her gaze. The chair has rarely, if ever, been empty. Close to 1,400 people have occupied it, some for only a minute or two, a few for an entire day.<\/p>\n

Sitting with Ms. Abramovic has been the hot event of the spring art season. Celebrities \u2014\u00a0Bjork<\/a>,\u00a0Marisa Tomei<\/a>,Isabella Rossellini<\/a>,\u00a0Lou Reed<\/a>,\u00a0Rufus Wainwright<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 did a stint. Young performance artists seized a moment in the limelight. One appeared in his own version of an Abramovic gown to propose marriage. Certain repeat sitters became mini-celebrities, though long-time waiters on line stared daggers at those who sat too long.<\/p>\n

Her solo work from the early 1970s was hair-raisingly nervy. She stabbed herself, took knockout drugs, played with fire. For one piece she stood silent in a gallery for six hours, having announced that visitors could do anything they wanted to her physically. At one point a man held a gun to her neck. Her eyes filled with tears, but she didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n

In 1976 she started collaborating with the German artist Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay. Some of their performances were punishing athletic events, as they slammed their bodies together or into walls. Others were almost aggressively passive. For a piece called \u201cImponderabilia\u201d they stood facing each other, nude, in a narrow doorway in a museum. Anyone wanting to go from one gallery to another had no choice but to squeeze awkwardly and intimately between them.<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times 700-Hour Silent Opera Reaches Finale at MoMA Ruth Fremson\/The New York Times Marina Abramovic in the MoMA atrium. In her performance piece \u201cThe Artist Is Present,\u201d visitors sit in a chair silently facing her.\u00a0More Photos \u00bb By\u00a0HOLLAND COTTER Published: May 30, 2010 At 5 p.m. Monday one of the longest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}