Marina Abramović on Performance (2 of 3)

Marina Abramović has changed art. The preeminent performance artist of our time, her pioneering exploration of the genre began in the mid1970s and continues to this day. Last year, the Serbianborn artist s work was celebrated in a retrospective at New York s Museum of Modern Art. In the title piece, The Artist Is Present, Abramović sat motionless in the museum s atrium every day for three months; the simple act of confronting her public for the exhibition s duration, without uttering a word, captivated vi