Perhaps you were lucky enough to see the show
[https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/marina-abramovic-marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present-2010/]
—before face masks and travel restrictions and crowd reductions and social
distancing and quarantine and COVID-anything-at-all.
When I told my Texan friends and family that I was moving to New Jersey for
graduate school, they warned me about the “liberal North.” Later, my graduate
school peers would snarl with
How strange that the most recognizable image of one of our most recognizable
people bears so little resemblance to his reality.
You’ve seen it. A silhouette. The legs splayed in opposite directions.
The fish coasters wanted a poem, but they’re getting an essay.
They wanted — I wanted — the tactile imagery of period plastics: vinyl
upholstery, Melmac plates, Formica counters, and artificial houseplants with
dusty
