The Most Viewed Portraits: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the MOMA

Thought it’d be fun to see the 200 most viewed portraits on the MOMA’s “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set. So I wrote a scraper to collect each portrait’s stats, including page views. A number of celebrities participated in the marathon performance art exhibit, including Sharon Stone, Rufus Wainright, and Bjork. Other top people include the guy who showed up a dozen times. And children and pretty females.

Photos by Marco Anelli. © 2010 Marina Abramović


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I'm a programmer journalist, currently teaching computational journalism at Stanford University. I'm trying to do my new blogging at blog.danwin.com.