From March 14 through May 31, 2010, the prolific performance artist Marina Abramović offered a retrospective exhibit The Artist Is Present to MOMA visitors.
The exhibit featured approximately fifty of the artist's works spanning over four decades of sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Uwe Laysiepen.
The most controversial works of the exhibit featured nude performers facing each other at a doorway
or lying under a skeleton
The Artist Is Present also included Abramović seating in the MOMA atrium for seven hours, five days a week, and for ten hours on Fridays. Visitors were invited to sit silently across from the artist for as long as they liked.
Photographer Marco Anelli took these incredible photographs of all people who participated in Marina Abramović's art performance and posted them to Flickr.
Each photo provides the duration of each participant's seating. Most staid only a few minutes but a couple of women sat with Abramovic for six and a half hours. 
Photos by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images North America
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