Try not to get blood all over your Annabelle Selldorf-designed interiors, Marina!

Tilda Swinton may have stolen Marina Abramović voyeuristic thunder at MoMA with her sleeping-in-a-glass-box shows, but when it comes to displaying oneself in glass boxes, Ms. Abramović will not be outdone: the Serbian grand matriarch of performance art just picked up a $2.65 million two-bedroom pad at Philip Johnson's Urban Glass House.

The eighth-floor apartment at 330 Spring Street, in Hudson Square, was asking $2.6 million, but listing broker Suzun Bennet at Town Residential managed to get a bit over the asking price. "It was on the market for quite a while as an investor apartment," Ms. Bennet told The Observer, but as soon as the rental tenant who was living there moved out, it sold. Unfortunately for seller Eliot Ferguson, though, it didn't quite fetch the nearly $2.7 million that he paid for the unit at the end of 2006, at the height of the real estate bubble.

The 1,722-square foot condo's interiors were done by Annabelle Selldorf, an inoffensive choice for a woman who once declared, "Art should be disturbing."

Ms. Abramović's new walls will be delivered sans sang.

Ms. Abramović's new pad is a bit cheaper than her last, which was a fourth-floor loft at 70 Grand Street in SoHo that she sold last year for $3.2 million. And she may use her new place as a pied-à-terre, since Ms. Abramović's latest venture will take her to the town of Hudson, in upstate New York, where Rem Koolhaas-led OMA will be designing her new Marina Abramović Institute building.

Despite Ms. Abramović's aggressively public exposure and the apartment's floor-to-ceiling windows with northern and eastern exposures, the surrounding buildings are all low-rise commercial and industrial structures, so Ms. Abramović should have a bit of privacy. At least, until her neighbors start taking advantage of the Hudson Square rezoning.

Buyers with a little more girth might need a bit of retouching to squeeze into this 15 footer.

Master photo retoucher Pascal Dangin might make his living zapping the life-sustaining fat off of models and actresses, but it looks like he's going to make his fortune in real estate.

Mr. Dangin bought a three-story townhouse in the West Village for $5.8 million in October 2007, right as the housing market was beginning to take a turn for the worse. After a starchitect renovation and a few years waiting for the market to return, he's now cashing out: Mr. Dangin just sold 281 West Fourth Street to the not-so-staidly-named Crazy Snack 05, LLC for a healthy $9.55 million, according to city records (maybe someone had already snagged 281 West Fourth Street LLC?).

The townhouse, which sits near the corner of West Fourth and West 11th Streets, where the space-time continuum (or at least the Manhattan street grid) collapses in on itself, includes a planted roof deck and cellar—with two dryers by the looks of the listing photos, which makes us wonder if Mr. Dangin didn't go a little overboard with the clone tool.

The house started out asking $9.75 million, which was at one point reduced to $9.6 million before eventually selling for $50,000 shy of that price. Abigail Agranat and Andrew Darwin of Douglas Elliman had the listing.

While it contains 2,720 square feet of space and three bedrooms, the home is a bit narrow—city records give the lot width as a hair over 17 feet, and the floorplans show that the interiors are only 15 feet wide. Given the lack of closet space (the two bedrooms on the second floor have none), we wouldn't recommend it for a family (no word on whether there are any little Crazy Snack 05s in the picture).

That said, the Corsica-born photo retouching maestro probably didn't need to Photoshop the listing images to make the place sell—the house was recently given an Annabelle Selldorf gut renovation, complete with a large wood and steel spiral staircase and "antique slab stone floors imported from France." (Which raises the question: isn't all stone "antique"? We weren't aware that they were making it any more!) The interiors are decked out in classical style, although the house doesn't appear to have any of its original touches—which we can forgive, given that the house dates to 1869, back in the days when Photoshop was still in beta.

“I think it is a departure from the ordinary developer buildings that are hailed as luxury,” said architect Annabelle Selldorf. “I feel strongly that this is going to be an exceptional residential building in lower Manhattan.”

Today at noon, roughly 40 topping out party-goers donned hardhats and braved the windy rooftop of the new Urban Glass House, the last residential commission of the late Philip Johnson. Architect Alan Ritchie was on hand, along with developer Charles Blaichman, who has profited nicely from a previous high-end, modern condo project—the first two Richard Meier buildings.

And like the the Perry Street fishbowl, marketing is king. For the Urban Glass House there have already been giant billboards, and promotional materials stressing the connection to Johnson's iconic home in New Canaan.

“He was the one who supported calling this The Urban Glass House. What he was thinking about—I venture to speculate—was not so much that it is identical to the Glass House in Connecticut, but he was referring to the light and space and air that he afforded this building, introducing these floor to ceiling glass partitions.”

After the coffee and sandwiches, everyone left the event with a hardcover promotional book that included a short Johnson biography and, of course, full-color interior shots of the building's super-sleek amenities. And even if you can’t afford your own modernist residence (prices expected to run from $1.6 to $10 million), the gift bags emblazoned with close-ups of the architects still makes quite the fashion statement.

-Michael Calderone