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• Untitled(i listened to coltrane and thought about murakami listening to coltrane and mccoy t

  07-04-2016 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  j is here i wonder if he has read what i wrote about him on line.if amanda asks why i’m with a woman i’ll say she’s my friend.if j wants to have a conversation i’ll tell him i’m not interested romantically. he doesn’t seem too sensitive.these are uncertain times. the doc may take me off my anti depressant tostave the high bp. he should lessen the dosage first.i need to see other women not to be lonely if i don’t get to see amanda every week. it is hard t
  
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• Untitled(An Immortal Vampire That Wants to See Everyone Dead)

  07-04-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i should not see b when she wants to see me. she doesn’t see me when i want to see her. i’m  isolated. j is talking to the blond woman. does she have a body? i can’t tell. she has on a long jacket. i can make out a dude. the bright blob thing that i’ve been having from my bp is fucking with my vision. the young handsome man adjusts his long hair. he has a more masculine voice than  i have.his parents gave him money, the handsome man with the long hair said.what
  
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• Panama Papers Clarify Ownership Of A Modigliani That Had Been Stolen

  07-04-2016 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Paris art dealer’s estate wants the art-collecting Nahmad family to return Amadeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With A Cane, which it claims the Nazis seized in World War Two. Panama Papers documents show the family had hidden true ownership of the work.
  
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• Panama Papers: How A Financial Speculator Transformed The Art Market

  07-04-2016 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The files may finally lay to rest rumours about how Christie’s snatched the Ganz commission from under the noses of rival auction houses. It is also a masterclass in the art of hedging by one of the world’s most successful financial speculators.”
  
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• Yale hosts United Nations colloquium on preservation of heritage sites

  07-04-2016 23:00
  The eighth-annual United Nations Global Colloquium of University Presidents will congregate at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on 12-13 April to discuss threats to cultural heritage sites, which include warfare, climate change, development, theft and neglect. The invitation-only meeting brings together university presidents and faculty from international institutions to discuss topics of immediate concern to the United Nations and the global community.
  “At this moment, [various
  
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• What to see at SP Arte

  07-04-2016 23:00
  
  Amidst a deepening recession and a political crisis that has engulfed Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, the SP Art fair opened on 7 April in São Paulo to moderate sales and thronging crowds. Below, we take a look at some of the fair’s more interesting booths. The fair is open through 10 April.São Paulo's Dan Galeria has a nice corner filled with the strong Brazilian geometric abstraction we have come to know and love, which fits nicely in the Oscar Niemeyer-designed bienna
  
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• Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’s Glasgow International extravaganza leaves London in the dust

  07-04-2016 23:00
  
  That much of Glasgow International’s enticing performance programme takes place over this weekend and beyond—Asparagus Piss Raindrop at the Roller Stop Roller Rink; VERBureau’s ice cream night and slumber party; witch hunts and uprisings at Calton Burial Ground, to name but a few—is a source of much sadness for your departing correspondent. But there was considerable compensation to be found in last night’s double-whammy live art extravaganza, which kicked off with
  
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• Five to see at MiArt in Milan

  07-04-2016 23:00
  
  Most of Italy seemed to be at Thursday’s VIP opening of the 21st edition of Milan’s Modern and contemporary MiArt fair, which continues through this weekend (Fieramilanocity, until 10 April). The fair, a rather uninspiring affair not so long ago, has gradually become one of the more thoughtfully organised events on the commercial circuit, to the credit of its artistic director Vincenzo de Bellis. De Bellis leaves after this year’s edition to become the curator of visual arts a
  
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• A national obsession with prostitution: Hannah Stamler on 19th-century French depictions of prostitution

  07-04-2016 23:00
  
  Throughout the second half of the 19th century, prostitutes were said to be invading the French capital: loitering on the newly-built boulevards and soliciting in cafés, concert halls, theaters and brasseries—spaces of bourgeois entertainment that typified Second Empire and, later, Belle Epoque Paris. Painters, sculptors and graphic artists hoping to represent their era’s defining features elevated prostitutes to central figures in their work, which is the subject of the larg
  
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• Ben Whishaw Promises He’s Not Damaged Like The Characters He Plays

  07-04-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s weird, isn’t it? Because I don’t see myself that way and I’m not that way. But I agree that obviously I’ve played a lot of people like that. I don’t know why it’s come about to be like that.”
  
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• The Largest War Ever Fought On The Internet (So Far)

  07-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “EVE Online is a massive multiplayer online game – a single environment shared by thousands of players, like World of Warcraft or Second Life – that has been in continual operation since 2003. … And in the latter half of the 2000s, those people engaged in an enormous conflict: The Great EVE War.”
  
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• Every Night A Singer Destroys This Artist’s Painting (And A New One Has To Be Created)

  07-04-2016 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It took artist Gerard Gauci a week to paint the whimsical portraits of sopranos Meghan Lindsay and Peggy Kriha Dye, which grace the stage of the Elgin Theatre in Opera Atelier’s Lucio SillaLucio Silla. But it only takes one minute for them to be destroyed when enraged dictator Lucio Silla punches one painting and stabs the other.”
  
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• This Woman Wants You To Dance Every Single Day At 3:15 PM

  07-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Choreographer Meg] Foley and three collaborators committed to creating an improvised dance at precisely 3:15 p.m. each day for six months, and documenting the results in writing, photos, or video. … Members of the public also are urged to do their own 3:15 dances – and document, upload, and hashtag them as part of the project.”
  
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• Mossack Fonseca's role in fight over painting stolen by Nazis

  07-04-2016 20:00
  
  Panama Papers highlight offshore law firm’s part in contested claim by heir of alleged former owner of Modigliani pieceDavid Cameron admits he profited from father’s offshore fund
  How offshore firm helped billionaire change the art world for everAll the Guardian’s Panama Papers revelations so far
  Mossack Fonseca helped a New York art gallery defend itself over a claim about a Nazi-looted artwork after the apparent original owner’s descendant launched a legal battle for it
  
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• How offshore firm helped billionaire change the art world for ever

  07-04-2016 20:00
  
  Panama Papers suggest Joe Lewis bought famous Ganz collection before record-breaking Christie’s sale, netting millions Lot 33 spun into view, hanging on a revolving panel. The brilliantly coloured Women of Algiers (version O), Pablo Picasso’s early cubist masterpiece, was moments away from finding a new owner.The year was 1997, and 2,000 people had assembled at the Manhattan salesroom of Christie’s auction house. The collection of Victor and Sally Ganz, one of the most importan
  
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• United States Artists Announces Ann Hatch as New Trustee

  07-04-2016 19:35 via artnews.com
  Grant-making organization United States Artists (USA) has just announced the appointment of Ann Hatch to its board of trustees. In this role, Hatch will join sixteen fellow trustees from across the country entrusted with overseeing the growth of the organization, … Read More
  
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• In An Age Of Instant Availability Of Movies, We’re Losing Some Classics

  07-04-2016 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The digital technology that was supposed to rescue the back catalogue from oblivion, restoring and preserving fragile celluloid for future generations, poses as many problems as it solves. The digital age is full of false assumptions about access and availability, and film is a fleeting medium, its materiality under more direct assault than ever before.”
  
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• Dolphins, Walking Oyster Bars, and Performers on Stilts: At the 2016 Tribeca Ball

  07-04-2016 19:02 via artnews.com
  On Monday night some 900 people crammed their way up six floors of the New York Academy of Art for the institution’s annual Tribeca Ball. Billed as an “art gala unlike any other,” the evening is both an open studio for the … Read More
  
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• Blindsight – When Your Brain Sees What You Don’t

  07-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Blindsight offers a tantalizing hint about human consciousness. It demonstrates the difference between merely processing visual information in the brain, like in a computer, versus having a reportable conscious experience of it.”
  
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• Leopold Museum returns two Schiele drawings to New York heir

  07-04-2016 18:57
  
  The Leopold Museum in Vienna has agreed to return two drawings by Egon Schiele, including a self-portrait, to the 95-year-old descendant of Karl Mayländer, six years after an Austrian commission recommended the works be restituted. Three further works by Schiele fr om Mayländer’s collection, Girl Squatting on a Flower Meadow (1910), Self-portrait in White Suit and Panama Hat (1910) and Bended Male Nude Back View (1908) will remain at the Leopold Museum.The Austrian culture minis
  
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• Meet The Russian Cellist Outed In The Panama Papers For Controlling Billions Of Dollars

  07-04-2016 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Almost nobody in Russia remembered that Vladimir Putin’s closest friend from the 1970s was a St. Petersburg musician named Sergei Roldugin. Even fewer could imagine that the cellist with an old- fashioned haircut lived a secret life offstage, allegedly plotting huge scams and moving more than $2 billion through a network of offshore bank accounts and companies.”
  
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• Project Runway: Cheryl Donegan on Her Fashion Line for the New Museum

  07-04-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  One recent afternoon, Cheryl Donegan was rifling through a rack of jackets, leggings, and coats, all of which had images of jackets, leggings, and coats printed on them. She was in a classroom on the New Museum’s fifth floor, where … Read More
  
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• Look, Thomas Jefferson Was Neither (Just) A Founding Father Deity Nor A Slave-Owning Monster, Say Historians

  07-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter S. Onuf: “Every Jefferson biography on the shelf is a polemic, one way or another, but we wanted to get beyond that.” Annette Gordon-Reed: “People read history the way we watch movies, where you have a good guy and a bad guy. What’s the point of even going to the library to do research if you already know what you think?”
  
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• Own a work by Anish Kapoor for just £55—but there's a catch

  07-04-2016 17:51
  
  Fancy owning a work by Peter Blake, Steve McQueen or Anish Kapoor for just £55? The Royal College of Art’s annual fundraiser, RCA Secret, opens today (8 April) with more than 2000 postcards made by famous artists, RCA alumni and current students. But the twist is that buyers only find out who made the work after they have purchased it. Other big name contributors this year include Grayson Perry, Alison Wilding, Lawrence Weiner, Maggi Hambling, Thomas Heatherwick and pop star Damon A
  
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• Jerry Saltz: He’s Just Like Us!

  07-04-2016 17:41 via artnews.com
  Jerry Saltz is America’s “most popular, and unpopular” art critic, according to a lengthy profile of the writer in Tablet‘s current print issue by Dushko Petrovich. In the piece, Saltz, the senior art critic for New York magazine, schmoozes with … Read More
  
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• Atlanta Considers Fate Of Its Breuer-Designed Library

  07-04-2016 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To suggest that a building of such architectural merit is not worthy of being preserved and reused in a new capacity is shortsighted at best and downright flippant at worst. Suffering from neglect and a rather unflattering interior renovation in the last decade or so, the building would require a commitment by the city to restore and maintain the facility.”
  
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• Philip Hartigan obituary

  07-04-2016 17:30
  
  My brother-in-law, Philip Hartigan, who has died of a heart attack aged 67, was one of the pioneer street mural artists working in London from the swinging 60s through to the 1980s.He always knew that he needed to live the life of an artist but, as he later said: “I didn’t like what art school did to my friends.” So he left his home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, after his A-levels, and got his first real chance to learn and practise art through the English psychedel
  
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• And The Next Famous Property Matthew Bourne Will Adapt Is –

  07-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is some people’s favourite movie but the stage version was one of the biggest disasters in Broadway history. So the choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne admitted he was taking a risk as he announced his next production.”
  
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• To Be Or Not To Be (Pretentious Or Aspirational?)

  07-04-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A discomfort with the radical, or the confusing, or the challenging—with artworks, and lives, that insist on being otherwise—is very often what lies beneath the charge of pretentiousness. As much as it’s a way of deflating some apparently empty cultural gesture, calling something (or someone) pretentious is also a way of defending yourself against the uncomfortable feeling of not getting something, or—worse still—the uncomfortable suspicion that you’re
  
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• Why Musicians Turn To Bach In Times Of Public Trauma

  07-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not every composer writes music with medicinal effects. Mahler’s darker symphonies could make a bad day even worse. Yet Bach … is described by passionate advocates as music for times of modern-day crisis. Says pianist Alexandre Tharaud, “When I play Bach, my hands feel better, my body feels better, and my heart feels better.”
  
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• Panama Papers Claim Their First High-Profile Arts-World Scalp

  07-04-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has canceled publicity events linked to Friday’s release of his latest movie, Julieta, after reports that he and his brother, a movie producer, were named in the … leaked documents.”
  
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• Caetano de Almeida at Galeria Luisa Strina

  07-04-2016 15:42 via artnews.com
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• Half Of Brits Don’t Want To See A Female Hamlet

  07-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When asked about a female Hamlet, 48% did not like the idea. This contrasts with only 15% who were in favour, and 28% who were ‘neutral’. … Of the same sample, nearly a third had positive feelings about a black or minority ethnic Hamlet, compared with 20% who felt negatively about it.”
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ Is Now A Big Business – Here’s Its CEO

  07-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The producer Jeffrey Seller struck gold with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit about the founding fathers. Now he has a new challenge – managing a runaway success.”
  
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• Columbia University Students Protest A Sculpture – And P.C. Has Nothing To Do With It

  07-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike many campus outcries of the past year, this one has nothing to do with sexism or racism. [Henry] Moore’s Reclining Figure (1969-70), many students have said, is just ugly and doesn’t fit in with Columbia’s neo-Classical aesthetic.”
  
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• Shakespeare First Folio Discovered On Scottish Island

  07-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University, said her first reaction on being told the stately home was claiming to have an original First Folio was: ‘Like hell they have.'”
  
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• Naked Donald Trump painting censored in the US to go on display in UK gallery

  07-04-2016 14:43
  
  'The painting was created to evoke a reaction, good or bad, about the significance we place on our physical selves'
  
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• Dashing rogues? No, art thieves are boring goons

  07-04-2016 14:42
  
  The recovery of yet another stolen picture by Edvard Munch is a reminder of just how seedy and unromantic art theft has become Related: Stolen Edvard Munch artwork recovered after seven years Art theft is ugly. People love to picture art thieves as dashing cat burglars who look like George Clooney and have a raffish charm that makes their crimes forgivable. In reality, they are mostly gangsters and professional criminals who have no feelings at all about the masterpieces they steal to use as co
  
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• Morning Links: Late-Night Art Edition

  07-04-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• Another Step Forward For Women Conductors At L.A. Philharmonic

  07-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki will become only the third person ever appointed principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.” Her two predecessors are Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas.
  
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• The Whitney Names Its New Building After Donor Who Didn’t Want The Museum To Move

  07-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Leonard A. Lauder, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s chairman emeritus, initially opposed the museum’s move downtown to its new home in the Meatpacking district from the Breuer building on Madison Avenue. Now, that new home will bear his name.”
  
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• So You’ve Just Won A Literary Prize And More Money Than You’ve Ever Had – How Do You Handle It?

  07-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s great to receive a big wad of cash, of course, especially when you’re a writer with an erratic income trying to cobble together a living from part-time day jobs, intermittent advances, peripatetic teaching gigs and the occasional one-time grant. But unexpected sums bring unexpected burdens, both practical (What does this mean for my tax situation?) and psychological (Am I a fraud who does not deserve this money?)”
  
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• Boss At London’s Royal Opera Says His Final Production Will Take Direct Aim At His Critics

  07-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kasper Bech Holten’s tenure as artistic director, which ends in March of next year, has seen more controversy over stagings than is usual at Covent Garden. So, he says, “what could be more fitting for my last show in London than to do a comedy about how hard it is sometimes for audiences and artists to find the right way to communicate with each other?”
  
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• Antonio Pappano To Be Longest-Serving Music Director In Covent Garden’s History

  07-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Talking this morning about his decision to stay on [until 2020] … Pappano said simply ‘I don’t want to go to any other opera house’.”
  
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• Home of Cairo’s leading Townhouse Gallery collapses

  07-04-2016 12:51
  
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  The main building of Cairo’s leading contemporary art venue, Townhouse Gallery, partially collapsed yesterday, 6 April. The collapse of the five-storey 1890s building has destroyed the recently renovated Townhouse Library, the first-floor gallery extension, and some administrative offices. Nobody was injured. The neighbouring organisation Cairo Hacker Space, an open source community workspace for engineers, designers, an
  
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• Titian, Tiepolo and Canaletto: Venetian paintings from Vittorio Cini’s collection go on show for the first time

  07-04-2016 12:34
  
  For the first time ever, part of the Italian industrialist and art patron Vittorio Cini’s collection of Venetian art will go on show to the public—a veritable who’s who of the Venice’s greatest artists, including Titian, Lorenzo Lotto, Francesco Guardi, Canaletto and Gianbattista Tiepolo. Works by less internationally known but historically important artists such as Carlo Crivelli, Cima da Conegliano and Bartolomeo Montagna, will also go on show at Palazzo Cini, Vittorio
  
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• Street artist Biancoshock installs tiny rooms in Milan's manholes

  07-04-2016 12:04
  
  The hundreds of homeless people living in the sewers of Bucharest inspired the works
  
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• Jesus now available in S, M, L and XL: Inside the Church Supplies World Fair

  07-04-2016 11:37
  
  A 'counter–reality' made of bored salesmen, busy nuns and misplaced items.
  
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• Disrespect your elders: why artists need to embrace their inner child

  07-04-2016 10:30
  
  Initiatives like Playing Up and Haphazard are turning children into artists, and at a time of political apathy and risk aversion, they can also teach adults to playMost people interested in performance and live art will have heard of the Guerrilla Girls, founded in 1985 in New York to protest against the under-representation of women artists in museums. They turned activism and protest into a spectacle. So how about Guerrilla Kids, upset by the lack of artworks by children on display in importan
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.06.16

  07-04-2016 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Risk management
  New ballets are risky endeavours, requiring significant investment in talent, time and money. Yet do classical companies give them the best chance to shine? Performance Monkey asks companies around the world about previews, rehearsals … read more
  AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-04-06At the NEA’s Jazz Masters Ball
  The Kennedy Center was filled Monday night with VIPs, devotees and artists across disciplines for the 34th annual celebration of Jazz Masters by t
  
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