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ABOUT Marina Abramovic

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form, creating some of the genre's important early works. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits in works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. She has presented her work at major institutions in the US and Europe.
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ABOUT Etgar Keret

Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the author of six bestselling story collections, most recently Suddenly, a Knock on the Door. His writing has been published in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope. Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife, Shira Geffen, won the Camera d’Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was named a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters.
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ABOUT Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the first woman Speaker of the House and is also the first woman in American history to lead a major political party in Congress, having served as House Democratic Leader from 2003 to 2007. Leader Pelosi will mark her 25th year of service in the House representing San Francisco, California's Eighth District, in 2012.
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ABOUT Wanda Corn

Wanda Corn is a scholar of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art and photography. Corn most recently taught at Stanford University where she held the university's first permanent appointment in the history of American art and served as chair of the department of art and art history and was acting director of the Stanford Museum. She retired from Stanford in 2008.
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ATTENTION: The four ticket year-round bundle is no longer available because Wanda Corn has sold out. Please purchase the 3 Ticket Bundle instead.

CHF Members Only: Purchase this bundle of all four 2012 year-round programs at a discounted price. Add this item to your itinerary below, and purchase it when tickets go on sale for members in January.

Included Events:

Wanda Corn: Women Building History – Mary Cassatt and Her Sister Artists

Etgar Keret: A Conversation and Reading

Nancy Pelosi: Joanne Alter Women in Government Lecture

Marina Abramovic: A Lecture on Performance and Its Future