Thought Train to Pusan

To be honest this was another one of those books that I picked up at the library because the cover was appealing to me. Upon then seeing the logline that it was inspired by the art of Marina Abramovic, I felt compelled to check it out: you see, I did a big project about her back in art school (as a part of our history of performance art unit), and at the time didn’t really get what it was about her work that drew so many people in, but there was definitely still something resonating with me. And from time to time still I find myself thinking about her and her work, even though I did all that research and work almost 10 years ago now. So that brings us to The Museum of Modern Love : although a fictional work about mostly fictional characters, the story is centered around Abramovic’s very real piece, The Artist is Present , which she performed in 2010 at MoMA. This is the one where she sat at a table for seventy-five days, inviting strangers to sit across from her...