<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - as-art</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/as-art</link><description>Newsvine - as-art</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:37:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:21:02 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Performance artist gives birth in NYC art gallery</title>
<description><![CDATA[A performance artist who said giving birth is the "highest form of art" has delivered a baby boy &#8212; inside a New York City art gallery]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ula Ilnytzky]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ula Ilnytzky]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/24/8461729-performance-artist-gives-birth-in-nyc-art-gallery</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/24/8461729-performance-artist-gives-birth-in-nyc-art-gallery</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>us</category><category>art</category><category>odd-news</category><category>birth</category><category>new-york-city</category><category>us-news</category><category>as</category><category>as-art</category><category>marni-kotak</category><category>birth-as</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:32:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7c7d4a98-3cf8-4ce4-a3e0-ebf6f6b454bf.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="236" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7c7d4a98-3cf8-4ce4-a3e0-ebf6f6b454bf.jpg" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Brooklyn-based performance artist Marni Kotak, who plans to give birth to her first child in front of a public audience at the Microscope Gallery in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, is shown at the gallery, which has been converted into a birthing room in New York, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011,  The birth will be assisted by a midwife. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/340712bd-8c68-42a7-8d0a-68fa32f53d49.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/340712bd-8c68-42a7-8d0a-68fa32f53d49.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Brooklyn-based performance artist Marni Kotak, who plans to give birth to her first child in front of a public audience at the Microscope Gallery in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, is shown leaning on a birthing pool at the gallery, which has been converted into a birthing room, in New York, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011.  The birth will be assisted by a midwife. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6c4f572f-abc4-4f87-a775-c39875ba9fa9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="287" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6c4f572f-abc4-4f87-a775-c39875ba9fa9.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Brooklyn-based performance artist Marni Kotak, left, who plans to give birth to her first child in front of a public audience at the Microscope Gallery in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, is shown at the gallery in New York, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, with her painter-artist husband Jason Robert Bell. The gallery has been converted into a birthing room,  The birth will be assisted by a midwife. 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(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c63b807d-e1c8-4e6b-bf64-c4e147d97146.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c63b807d-e1c8-4e6b-bf64-c4e147d97146.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Brooklyn-based performance artist Marni Kotak, left, who plans to give birth to her first child in front of a public audience at the Microscope Gallery in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, laughs as her artist-painer husband Jason Robert Bell, plays with a rubber ball that is part of the birthing room Kotak created at the gallery in New York, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011.  The birth will be assisted by a midwife. 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<description><![CDATA[The nose rarely figures in the sensory experience of a museum visitor. That is about to change at one New York City museum.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ula Ilnytzky]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ula Ilnytzky]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/09/5615931-nyc-museum-to-start-exploring-scent-as-art-form</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/09/5615931-nyc-museum-to-start-exploring-scent-as-art-form</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>us</category><category>art</category><category>new-york-city</category><category>us-news</category><category>as</category><category>scent-as</category><category>as-art</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:08:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/36feb783-e057-47ee-ad08-0154f1befd90.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/36feb783-e057-47ee-ad08-0154f1befd90.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 file photo shows The Museum of Arts and Design in it's new space at 2 Columbus Circle in New York.  The nose rarely figures in the sensory experience of a museum visitor. That is about to change at one New York City museum. The Center of Olfactory Art dedicated to scent as an art form was launched at the Museum of Arts and Design on Thursday Dec. 9, 2010.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, FILE)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b6897c27-48f8-4901-8905-9b055aa580a4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="361" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b6897c27-48f8-4901-8905-9b055aa580a4.jpg" width="120" height="170" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This undated photo provided by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York shows Chandler Burr, former scent critic of The New York Times. Burr will join the museum's curatorial staff as its - and the nation's -  first curator of olfactory art. (AP Photo/Museum of Arts and Design) NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>