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Soap opera as performance art

If you bake some bread in a museum space it becomes art, but if you do it at home you're a baker.
—Marina Abramović in conversation with James Franco, about the importance of context in performance art

In today's Wall Street Journal, James Franco gives us an overview of performance art in the 20th century, noting that recent recognition by the Guggenheim, Art Basel Miami, and MoMA's P.S. 1 lend credibility to an art form earlier considered frivolous and pretentious.

Just as the art world is reconsidering the stature of performance art, Franco hopes that his appearance on General Hospital will encourage people to "ask themselves if soap operas are really that far from entertainment that is considered critically legitimate was panned by traditional art critics."

[A Star, a Soap, and the Meaning of Art | WSJ]

(Also, Palo Alto represent! Though Franco and I went to the same high school, we never crossed paths.)

 

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