Marina Abramovic is apologizing for her recent statements about Jay Z in an interview, which disparaged him for not following through with his promise to help the Marina Abramovic Institute after their collaboration for his music video.
As we previously reported, Abramovic told Spike Art Magazine the rapper “completely used me” for his “Picasso Baby” video. She’s now following up with a statement saying she “wasn’t informed” of a donation he gave.
Their partnership helped spread awareness about her The Artist Is Present performance, during which she sat still for hours at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Jay Z joined her to rap for six hours and he adapted that footage into a music video.
She claimed he didn’t help her institute like he promised, calling it a “one-way transaction” and she will “never do it again.”
Daily News reports the Marina Abramovic Institute has since said, "Marina Abramovic was not informed of Shawn 'JAY Z' Carter’s donation from two years ago when she recently did an interview with Spike Magazine in Brazil," adding, "We are sincerely sorry to both Marina Abramovic and Shawn 'Jay Z' Carter for this, and since then we have taken to appropriate actions to reconcile this matter."
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