REVIEW: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Casts Light on the Shadowy Secrets of an Enigmatic Performer

"After the show I have to really put some more attention to sex in my life," Marina Abramovic vows near the beginning of Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, an elegantly observed, sleekly packaged look at an artist whose career-long balance of enigma and self-exposure culminated in a 2010 retrospective at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. "Semi-intellectual artist at the top of her career," goes Abramovic’s self-drafted personal ad, "looking for single male." My head completed a few full rotations taking in what all’s going on in that sentence, but let’s begin with the part about being on top.
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