Marina Abramovic Made Us Think Really Hard And It Hurt, But Not As Much As Her Art Must Hurt Her

We broke the code and made our way above 14th street last night to see Marina Abramovic‘s performance at the Guggenheim. The fourth in her Seven Easy Pieces (a Donna Karan shout-out?) series (five covers, one repeat, and one new), she performed her own seven-hour version of Joseph Beuys’ “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare.” We arrived around seven or so, which meant she had been covered in honey and gold leaf on her head, shackled with an iron sole on her right foot, and cradling and whispering to a dead hare for just two hours.