«If you question whether the Museum of Modern Art should be collecting works of performance art, your doubts may be assuaged by the sight and sound of “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano,” a trenchant, newly acquired work by Allora & Calzadilla, the artist team that will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale. Created in 2008 and first exhibited at the Haus der Kunst in Munich that year, this performance-sculpture-recital-dance piece was an instant hit when it was at the Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea in January 2009 [...]
