Francesco Vezzoli Presents Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again)

This publication documents Francesco Vezzoli's iconic performance piece with Lady Gaga and the Bolshoi Ballet that took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in November 2009. The highly visual performance took references from Diaghilvev's 1935 ballet, Le Bal. Following this, the performance was the subject of an exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow in 2010, which included a combination of video, petit-point embroidery, photography, costume design, and live performance. This publication documents this piece of performance art and the later exhibition, and includes the text of a conversation between Vezzoli and Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1.