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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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