from PRX.

I'm Kurt Anderson, and this is the Studio 360 podcast.

You invited the Rock, the World Wrestling Federation champion

to speak at the Republican National Convention?

What's a matter with you people?

Suck it to me?

I became an official painter of the Khmer Rouge.

I don't express political desires in my novels.

I just tell stories.

Hello, I'm Kurt Anderson, and this is Studio 360.

That's how Studio 360 began its first episode on November 4, 2000.

Just before we elected George W. Bush, and we all learned what a hanging Chad was.

My special guest today in Studio 360 is the artist Barbara Kruger, who will talk with us about

politics and power in movies and music and even in her own art.

I make art about the collision of my days and nights with the culture that has constructed and contains me.

All that and more coming up in Studio 360s from WNYC and PRI, Public Radio International.

Originally produced out of WNYC here in New York, the show is all about the cool, but

complicated and sometimes strange ways that art touches our lives.

Two decades later, that mission hasn't changed, even if the people making the show have come and gone.

I'm Jocelyn Gonzalez, executive producer of Studio 360.

But I was a still wet behind the ears associate producer when the show debuted two decades ago.

I was away from the show for about 10 years before returning to this staff in 2017.

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