A sleeper hit! Tilda at MoMA

• By WILSON DIZARD and DAN MACLEOD
• Last Updated: 5:09 AM, March 24, 2013
• Posted: 12:49 AM, March 24, 2013

Tilda Swinton’s latest performance is a real snooze.

The Scottish actress is the newest exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art — in a performance piece for which she sleeps all day in a glass box.

The “Moonrise Kingdom” star lounged yesterday in the bed as dozens of art patrons gawked.

“I feel bad for her. It’s physically demanding. Is she just nocturnal for a month?” said one visitor, Ethan Fuirst, 17, of Manhattan

Another viewer, Gaby Shorr, 24, of Brooklyn, who works for an art appraiser, said: “I think because I know more about art I’m not that interested. But maybe it’s good she’s using her celebrity to make people think.”

Robert Miller

QUIET! ARTIST AT WORK: Visitors peer in as actress Tilda Swinton snoozes in a display case at the Museum of Modern Art yesterday for her piece “The Maybe.”

There is no set schedule for the performance, titled “The Maybe,” and the location of her public naps changes.

“Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real — shared — time: Now we see it, now we don’t,” MoMA said in a statement.

Swinton’s only items in the box are a mattress, pillow, her glasses and a jug of water.

The work was first shown in London in 1995. At her last show in Rome in 1996, she took a daily hourlong break and hung a sign that read “siesta,” MoMA said.