1965:
Artist Joseph Beuys covers his head with honey and gold-leaf then carries a dead hare around a gallery, explaining the pictures to the hare. The performance is called "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare."
2005:
Artist Marina Abramović recreates Beuys' performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
>(Y) What does it mean to be covered in gold?
>Can you locate one other pic w/ Y head covered in gold?
>What does this represent?
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1973:
Italian artist Vettor Pisani presents his performance Androgino (carne umana e oro; trans. human flesh and gold)
>(Y) What does it mean to be covered in gold?
>Can you locate one other pic w/ Y head covered in gold?
>What does this represent?
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2015:
Fashion designer Rick Owens presents his new season collection during Paris Fashion Week, featuring models with faces covered in gold, silver and yellow-gold leaf. Makeup artist Lucia Pieroni says she was inspired by Mayan goddesses.
>(Y) What does it mean to be covered in gold?
>Can you locate one other pic w/ Y head covered in gold?
>What does this represent?
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