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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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Newark
New Jersey
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