ALD examines the work of internationally renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, whose flesh- and soul-rending self-experiments incorporate masochism and extreme self-control into a form of transcendence that would have earned her Sainthood in recent centuries. Photograph courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery.

Our esteemed art editor accompanies BK's concussive Blasto-rama with an explication and review of the artists and their makings.