The New Museum in New York has a show no one should miss. And you don’t even need to go there to see it. Led by Liz Glynn, a team of artists will be building Rome in a day, a piece of performance art that will result in a model of Rome. They start at 6pm on April 6th, and Rome will be complete at 6pm on the 7th (one hopes; besides, is Rome ever complete?). If you can’t get to Lower East Side museum to see the project develop through the museum’s windows, you can watch online through a photo feed at (newmuseum.org) or its Facebook page (facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/New-Museum/12810599610). As of April 8th, this 24-hour mini-Rome will be on display in the museum. Why? Here’s an excerpt from the NY Times’ article on the project: “Ms. Glynn said she did not set out to reconstruct Rome but rather to explore a possible project that dealt with what she described as ‘the potential for change.’ ‘But the phrase “You can’t build Rome in a day” kept being bandied about politically, so I decided to try it,’ she said.” Even more interesting, the performance/installation aims to reflect – experience might be a better word – ancient Rome’s over-1000-year evolution. “The idea is to examine ‘what it is for an empire to rise slowly at first and then be quickly destroyed,’ Ms. Glynn said.” I’ll be tuning in now and then on the 6th and 7th.