Only Marina Abramović Could Have A 70th Birthday Party Like This

“Facilitators in white lab coats’ – art students who told me they found the gig through Craigslist and similar services – were stationed about the atrium, applying swatches of gold leaf to participants’ mouths. … The decoration was meant to recall both Orthodox Christian icons and the Ayurvedic practice of feeding gold and honey to infants. It was messy and got in the men’s beards and made everyone look like they had just swallowed a Klimt.”