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Couples Kiss and Make Art at Chicago Museum

By ARTINFO

Published: November 29, 2007
CHICAGO—A new performance piece has six couples locking lips and rolling on the floor of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, each day, from open until close, through December 30, the Chicago Tribune reports.

"Kiss," an exhibition by British artist Tino Sehgal, involves eight-minute, choreographed routines—or "living sculptures"—that recreate famous kisses from art history: those created by Auguste Rodin, Constantin Brancusi, Edvard Munch, and Gustav Klimt, among them.

Many of the participants in "Kiss," who earn $45 per shift, are real-life couples. A couple of museumgoers also tried to join in, but security guards asked them to leave.
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