Artist Marina Abramovic is interviewed in The Guardian this week, discussing her upcoming retrospective at The Serpentine, where the artist will freely wander the space of the gallery, and will allow visitors to come in and watch her.  “It’s the public and me and nothing else,” she says. “I took the objects away. But the encounter, I’ve never done anything as radical as this. This is as immaterial as you can go.” (more…)

In another example of celebrities attempting the conceptual in a gallery setting, actor Shia Labouf has installed himself at Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, welcoming attendees to sit across from him as he cries.  The piece bears resemblance to Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, but centers around LaBouf’s ongoing apologies and accusations of plagiarism. (more…)