TY - BOOK AU - Rose,Heather TI - The museum of modern love SN - 9781760633394 U1 - 823.4 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Crows Nest, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Abramovic, Marina KW - Abramović, Marina. KW - Women KW - Attitudes KW - Fiction KW - Performance art KW - fast KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - New York (State) KW - New York N1 - Originally published: 2016; "A novel inspired by Marina Abramovic."--Cover N2 - She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art & had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live? If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do. Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do ER -