Most people outside the art world had never heard of performance artist Andrea Fraser until she installed a video piece called “Untitled” in a New York gallery. In the video, Fraser has sex in a hotel with an art collector she had never met, and who paid her dealer handsomely. But Fraser told Tamar Brott that “Untitled” is more than a crude metaphor for “selling it.”
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