The Death Drive

In 2009, the artist Marina Abramović asked the playwright Robert Wilson to stage her funeral. He agreed, if she were also willing to let him stage her life. The resulting theatrical work, “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović,” débuted in Manchester in 2011, and is now playing at the Park Avenue Armory, through December 21st. See it if you can. On Friday, at 12 A.M., Beyoncé staged the death of

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