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Actress sleeps in box, Tilda Swinton Inside Box

Actress sleeps in box, Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films was sleeping inside the box. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Saturday had the chance to see an unusual performance: actress Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box. Photos of the "Burn After Reading" actress, posted on a web site called Gothamist, showed Swinton wearing shoes, a light blue shirt and dark blue pants, lying on white bedding with eyeglasses beside her. "Living artist, glass, steel, mattress, pillow, linen, water, and spectacles," said a description card of the performance called "The Maybe," according to a photo posted on Gothamist, a web site that covers New York. Kids watching Tilda inside the box A spokesperson for the museum could not be reached on Sunday, but the museum on Saturday tweeted a link to a story on the gossip site Gawker, about the performance art and added the note

Actress sleeps in box, Tilda Sleeping under Box

Actress sleeps in box. Katherine 'Tilda' Swinton is an English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. Actress sleeps under a box is making strange celebrity news this weekend, as Zap2It reported this Saturday, March 23, that Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton is currently encased in a glass-like box on display within the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City for the next month at sporadic times. Under the headline, “Unusual art: Tilda Swinton, actress sleeps in box at MoMA”, Zap2It added that the original art piece was created by Swinton herself and artist Cornelia Parker. It is titled, “The Maybe.” Spectator are looking when tilda Sleeps under the box In this most recent Museum of Modern Art version, Tilda Swinton will sleep in the glass box at unannounced times throughout the month of April in New York City. It is reported that these sleeping times are so random that even MoMA itself remains uncertain when she will specifically appear. The actres

Actress Sleeps in Box, Tilda Swinton in BOX

Actress Sleeps in Box, Actress Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an English actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films was making an unannounced performance of her 1995 piece The Maybe right now at the Musuem of Modern Art in Manhattan. She'll do it on random days over the next month, and even the museum staff won't know she's coming til the night before. "She's there today. She'll be there the whole day. All that's in the box is cushions and a water jug," a MoMA source told Gothamist.......complex. Swinton, 52, first did the performance piece at London's Serptentine Gallery in collaboration with British sculptor Cornelia Parker and actress Joanna Scanlan in 1995; she slept in the glass box for a week. In 1996 she repeated the performance in Rome at the Museo Barracco. MoMA said the whole point is that there isn't a schedule, a press release, or artist statement. "Those who find it chance up

Actress sleeps in box

Actress sleeps in box, As if starring in David Bowie music videos wasn't already the coolest, Tilda Swinton has currently taken up residency sleeping at MoMA. It's part of an unannounced, surprise performance piece called "The Maybe" that will be taking place on random days all month. A MoMA source told us, "Museum staff doesn't know she's coming until the day of, but she's here today. She'll be there the whole day. All that's in the box is cushions and a water jug." "Tilda Swinton will be doing unannounced, random performance art pieces sleeping in a glass box in the museum," the source added. "Today is the first performance. Each performance lasts the whole day the museum is open." Swinton and her box are located near the ticket collectors today, but the box may be in different locations at other performances. "The Maybe" was first performed in London in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery; Swinton conceiv