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“I think every artist would like to be a rock star.” – Robert Ayers in conversation with Mickalene Thomas.

No one walking along West 53rd Street on the way to MoMA this summer can miss Mickalene Thomas’s remarkable installation Le déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires in the window of The Modern restaurant. What may come as a surprise to many MoMA visitors though, are the direct links that exist between her installation [...]

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“The knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.” – Robert Ayers in conversation with Marina Abramović

I really don’t think I have ever met a more inspiring artist than Marina Abramović. She is only a few years older than me and I have followed her work like an awe-struck younger brother since I first became aware of her  work in the late 1970s. At every point in her career, from her [...]