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Encountering an icon: Marina Abramović

Arts.21 - The Cultural Magazine | 19.11.2016

A bit of a diva, cool, and very intense: Marina Abramović is one the greatest artists of our time. She turns her life into art. Radical and ruthlessly frank, her body is her medium. Now this icon is turning 70.

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