Marina and the Crystal Cave

screen shot from Live at MoMA

"One thing you can leave always is a good idea, and I really wanted to have this good idea to live after me."
   Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović is focusing on her legacy, on the "good idea." And, like all of her works, this one is big and brave and bold. Like all of her works, too, it is sure to be exalted by some, imitated by others, and ridiculed by still others. The Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) "will be a kind of cultural laboratory," she explains, and it will be open to everyone. Her intent? To create a "model society," one community at a time: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/reviews/marina-abramovic-profile-1113?click=main_sr
   Abramović names 10 new artists worth watching (slideshow): http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/reviews/artists-to-watch?click=main_sr
   A short interview with Abramović as she was preparing for her MoMA show (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GD5PBK_Bto