“If you’re going to watch anyone sleeping in a raised glass case, it might as well be actress Tilda Swinton, whose fey and androgynous beauty lends itself well to an act that’s fairy tale-like in nature. Swinton has spent two full days this past week dozing—at least ostensibly—in a translucent box in a gallery at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, as part of a performance piece titled The Maybe, which she first presented at London’s Serpentine Gallery in 1995. While Sleeping Beauty’s glass coffin was watched over by seven dwarves—or at least that’s how it went in the Disney movie—Swinton was observed on Monday by visitors who chanced upon her performance in the back corner of a second-floor gallery.”
Read the rest of my piece on Tilda Swinton sleeping at the MoMA here.
(On a side note, Tilda Swinton’s boy toy, Sandro Kopp, also loves painting her when she’s sleeping. I wrote a piece about it last year in Interview, if you’re interested.)
