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Marina Abramovic

The performance artist, 69, has won fame and respectability, but her new memoir details how difficult and unlikely that ascent has been

Why did you call your memoir Walk Through Walls? I felt, coming from East Europe and the Tito regime, there were so many walls I had to go through in order to make my 50-year career get to where it is now.

Some of this book is so incredible, I wondered if it were another performance. You say your grandfather was killed

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