https://www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/inside-marina-abramovics-home/

t took me around 30 seconds to make up my mind to buy Star House,’ the performance artist Marina Abramovic says of her home in Malden Bridge, New York State. The house, which is in the shape of a six-pointed star, had languished on the market for five years before she snapped it up for $1.25 million in 2007.

Too avant-garde for American sensibilities, it spoke to the artist on many levels. ‘I was brought up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a communist country, so the star is a potent symbol for me,’ Abramovic, 68, explains. ‘It is on my birth certificate; it was on all my textbooks in school.’….

It has also been a recurring theme in her work. Performances have seen her lying in a burning star (nearly dying of asphyxiation in the process), and carving a star in the flesh around her navel in what she refers to as an anti-communist act. Abramovic, whose work explores the boundaries of the body and mind, has spent four decades putting…..