NYC artist plans birth in Brooklyn gallery as performance art
Birth as Art
The is a detail of the work of Brooklyn-based performance artist Marni Kotak, who plans to give birth to her first child in front of a public audience at the Microscope Gallery in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, in New York. The gallery has been converted into a birthing room Kotak will be assisted by a midwife when she gives birth. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)