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Art Restores The Soul In 'Museum Of Modern Love'

Performance artist Marina Abramovic is the still point at the center of Heather Rose's new novel, as a motley cast of characters come to see her sitting at a table in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Source: Emily Bogle

My guess is that you've never read a book quite like Heather Rose's I know I haven't. This is the Australian author's seventh novel, though it's her first published in the United States, and it's a real find. Rose celebrates the transformative power of art with an artful construct of her own — the profound response of a handful of fictional characters to Marina Abramovic's performance piece, , in which the Serbian artist sat perfectly still and silent

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