Marni Kotak is like most pregnant women who plan a home birth: she hired a midwife and doula, she practiced relaxation techniques, and she inflated a birth tub. But Kotak is a performance artist, and ...

The bedroom is brightly decorated with ocean blue walls, family pictures and photo-imprinted pillows and blankets of the mother-to-be. An inflatable birthing pool and air mattress for the midwife and ...

Marni Kotak welcomed her son, a beautiful baby boy weighing 9 pounds, 2 ounces, inside the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York — making her first birth the ultimate art exhibit, an installation ...

Pregnancy and childbirth may be “beautiful,” but not literally so. Aesthetically speaking, it’s all pretty ugly, involving a lot of goo and gore and poop. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WHAT do we say when we talk about birth? Poets go to the end of their imaginations and back to find the right metaphors and novelists ...

A performance artist who said giving birth is the "highest form of art" has delivered a baby boy — inside a New York City art gallery. Marni Kotak gave birth at 10:17 a.m. on Tuesday, the Microscope ...

A performance artist who said giving birth is the “highest form of art” has delivered a baby boy – inside a New York City art gallery Marni Kotak gave birth at 10:17 a.m. on Tuesday, the Microscope ...