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You can’t spell “heart” without “art,” man!

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

March 18, 2024 by Halbs Leave a Comment

The Museum of Modern Love centers around Marina Abramović’s real-life performance art piece “The Artist is Present” (2009). In 2009, Abramović spent more than 700 hours sitting across a table from strangers, one at a time, at the Museum of Modern Art. She sat for three months and truly looked at each person across from her. And vice versa. For many it was a profound experience. Yet it was a public thing – museum guests could file in and watch these intimate moments. To me, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: art, heather rose, literary fiction, new york

Halbs's CBR16 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: art, heather rose, literary fiction, new york ·
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An island off an island

Bruny by Heather Rose

July 26, 2020 by Merryn Leave a Comment

  “Because to live on an island isn’t just a location. It’s a sense of belonging. It’s history and sacrifice.  It’s a choice to be remote.  It’s a kind of metaphor.” I grew up in Tasmania, Australia’s island state, a place that has become a literary symbol of beauty with something dark hidden in the mist.  Mainlanders, a group I now belong to, tend to look down on Tasmania as a dull backward place where nothing much happens except incest, while flying down for short […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, heather rose

Merryn's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, heather rose ·
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Conversations with Ourselves Through Conversations with Art

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

May 7, 2019 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Lisa Bee's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: heather rose ·
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