Marina Abramović Will Restage “The Artist Is Present ” to Raise Funds For Ukraine

March 22, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Marina Abramović is restaging “The Artist Is Present” for charity, artist Adelita Husni Bey looks at ways to share pain through art, and the National Endowment for the Arts finds that the arts sector shrank at twice the rate of the US economy during the pandemic.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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