The New York Times Magazine has published a new interview wwith Marina Abramović, the subject of the new documentary The Artist is Present, and who of course is planning a major performance art (or rather, performing art) institute in Hudson.
The interview by Andrew Goldman is lively, but he seems a bit more intent on gathering gossip about the artist’s love life and appearance than having a substantive discussion of her art. Perhaps as a result, the comments so far on the article are pretty much of the know-nothing, dismissive variety that Abramović has endured for much of her career, and of which the documentary (shown recently at the Berkshire International Film Festival) makes mincemeat.
