in the belly of the beast. “To do it in the belly of the beast, so to speak, feels like a big, subversive statement.”

In addition to Rashida Bumbray’s newly commissioned performance “Way Down,” the Met exhibition will include her video “Untitled (How High The Moon),” 2024, based on a performance she made while an artist in residence at the Met. It features the artist’s young daughter accompanied by friends dancing in and around the Temple of Dendur.Credit...Naima Green for The New York Times

“This is an exhibit at one of the, if not the, most lauded art institutions in the world,” he said. “To do it in the belly of the beast, so to speak, feels like a big, subversive statement.”




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It means to be in the center of danger. “I was on the front lines, by myself, in the belly of the beast, facing a heavily armed enemy platoon.”.