Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for performance art piece: Strangest celeb hobby?

Published March 25, 2013

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  Cast member Tilda Swinton attends a news conference for the film "Moonrise Kingdom", by director Wes Anderson, in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, May 16, 2012.Reuters

Tilda Swinton is known for being on the quirky side (remember her trash bag dress?), but the Oscar-winner is now officially super weird. The British actress is sleeping in a glass box at New York City's famed Museum of Modern Art as part of a performance art piece called "The Maybe."

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Angelina Jolie no longer walks around with a vial of blood around her neck, but as far as we know she still collects knives. 

When she's not crooning about lost love, Taylor Swift gets crafty with Christmas snow globes.

Tom Hanks has a hankering for vintage typewriters, and Daniel Day-Lewis finds the time to make his own shoes ...

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Actress Tilda Swinton performs art of sleeping in NYC

Published March 24, 2013

Associated Press

NEW YORK –  Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

A museum spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star presented her one-person piece called "The Maybe" on Saturday.

In "The Maybe," Swinton lies sleeping in a glass box for the day. The exhibit will move locations within the museum every time Swinton performs.

There is no published schedule for the piece, which will occur about a half dozen more times through the end of the year.

Swinton first performed the piece at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995. In 1996, she performed it in the Museo Barracco in Rome.

She won an Oscar in 2008 for best supporting actress for her role in "Michael Clayton."

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Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box at Museum of Modern Art

Published March 24, 2013

Associated Press

NEW YORK –  Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

A museum spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star presented her one-person piece called "The Maybe" on Saturday.

In "The Maybe," Swinton lies sleeping in a glass box for the day. The exhibit will move locations within the museum every time Swinton performs.

There is no published schedule for the piece, which will occur about a half dozen more times through the end of the year.

Swinton first performed the piece at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995. In 1996, she performed it in the Museo Barracco in Rome.

She won an Oscar in 2008 for best supporting actress for her role in "Michael Clayton."

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