How To Kill The Artist by Laurina Paperina

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By Lamia Larkin in Video on Friday 25 March 2011

Laurina Paperina loves contemporary art, especially contemporary artists. She loves them so much that she has several videos depicting ways in which she would kill them. Like Marina Abramovic dying from running into her lover several times naked, or Takashi Murakami being eaten by one of his flowers, or Damien Hirst being attacked by butterflies! Apparently you can love anybody to death.

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Marina Abromovic Made Me Cry

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By Gerry Mak in New Events on Monday 10 May 2010

Here’s a bunch of photos from the recent retrospective of performance artist Marina Abramovic at MoMA, The Artist is Present. The pictures are portraits of people sitting across Abromovic herself, staring at her in silence. The experience left many people in tears.

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