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• Rome Celebrates An Extensively-Cleaned Colosseum

  01-07-2016 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Buoyed by the brighter look of the Colosseum’s restoration, which was officially unveiled on Friday, Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini, announced that 18 million euros ($20 million) have been found to replace, by the end of 2018, the arena’s long vanished floor with one that could support modern-day entertainment, although monument-rocking rock concerts have been ruled out.”
  
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• Pallant House Gallery turns to an overlooked British painter

  01-07-2016 23:00
  After the death of the British painter Christopher Wood (1901-30) at the age of 29, he was quickly overshadowed by his great friend Ben Nicholson, who became a figurehead of British Modernism. A show at the Pallant House Gallery, which often casts a spotlight on overlooked Modern British artists, aims to redress the balance. Although Woods work is sometimes viewed within the context of his friendship with Ben and Winifred Nicholson (as at a show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2014), this over
  
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• Head to Rockaway before it’s too late

  01-07-2016 23:00
  This summer at Fort Tilden, a disused military outpost in Queens, MoMA PS1 presents Rockaway!, a new work by the German painter Katharina Grosse in which she covers an abandoned beachside building with methodical splatters of neon red, orange and pink paint. We spoke to Grosse about her project.
  Your work often seems like it is done by someone hovering in the sky. Do you see a narrative there? Is it your eye there, or is it a more objective view?
  It has to do with a certain kind of absurd scale
  
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• ‘Half of the French Think He’s a Very Bad Writer’: Palais de Tokyo Director Jean de Loisy on His Divisive Michel Houellebecq Show

  01-07-2016 23:00 via artnews.com
  It’s hard to explain to people outside of France just how notorious Michel Houellebecq is inside of France.“Half of the French think he’s a very bad writer,” said Jean de Loisy, the director of the Palais de Tokyo, the contemporary arts center, … Read More
  
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• Francis Bacon's great gambles—both in art and in the casino—on show in Monte Carlo

  01-07-2016 23:00
  
  A Bacon exhibition opening in Monte Carlo on Saturday 2 July reveals the close links between the artists obsessive gambling and his paintings. Both depended on chance. As Rebecca Daniels, a contributor to the Grimaldi Forum catalogue explains, so inextricably linked were gaming and art that Bacon regarded his losses on the roulette table as an expense related to painting. He once used this as an argument for his dealer to advance more money.Francis Bacon loved the French Riviera, but what made
  
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• David Hockney’s who’s who opens at the Royal Academy

  01-07-2016 23:00
  Eighty-two portraits of friends and acquaintances, all in the same format with blue or turquoise backgrounds, comprise the majority of David Hockneys latest exhibition at Londons Royal Academy of Arts (RA), which opens in July.
  The acrylic-on-canvas paintings, which will be hung chronologically, will allow visitors to see how the series developed from 2014 until this spring, when it was completed. Among those depicted are art world figures such as John Baldessari, Larry Gagosian, Benedikt Tasche
  
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• The Era Of Mid-Budget Movie Dramas Is Over

  01-07-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Either you offer audiences an unmissable blockbuster derived from well-known intellectual property, or you invest in meek, sub-$10-million indies and pray for a return on investment on the art-house and VOD circuits. That once-upon-a-time sweet spot of $30-million to $50-million productions, with marquee stars and trusted directors? That era is over.”
  
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• A History Of Miss Havisham

  01-07-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One early critic of Dickens’s Great Expectations called the character “a foolish, senseless, fantastical, impossible humbug”; later, another critic wrote that “living types have already been pointed out that claim resemblance [to her].” Carrie Frye suggests that this “seems like a fitting jumping-off point for exploring how Miss Havisham came to be in the world: as a fantastical, impossible creature … clearly based on real-life people.”
  
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• Virtually Vincent

  01-07-2016 20:39
  
  The "Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience", a lavish multimedia presentation about the Dutch expressionists life, launched in Beijing earlier this month at the Golden Resources Shopping Mall (until 16 September). The showcreated in partnership between Hollands Van Gogh Museum, the exhibition development firm Artcomm and the Wai Chun Culture companyis expected to attract more than 2,000 visitors daily (a five-year, 30-city tour of Greater China, taking in Shanghai in November is also on the car
  
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• Garrison Keillor, Consummate Radio Storyteller, Signs Off This Weekend

  01-07-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Radio itself is old-fashioned, of course, and yet – between Web-based podcasting, satellite radio and mobile apps — it is very much of the moment. Storytelling, which is the job inside Keillor’s bigger job, and one at which he casually excels, is the engine that drives “This American Life,” “Snap Judgment,” “StoryCorps” and “The Moth.”
  
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• Meryl Streep, Garry Trudeau, Taylor Mac, Diane Lane, And Andrei Serban Remember Elizabeth Swados

  01-07-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For Elizabeth Swados, being nominated for four Tony Awards in one year while still in her 20s – for Runaways, in 1978 – led to success in an unexpected direction. Or, rather, in several unexpected directions.”
  
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• A Broadway Competition That Suggests The Next Generation Of Broadway Stars

  01-07-2016 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The winners received $10,000 toward their college educations and a chance to audition for acceptance and a scholarship to the Tisch School of the Arts at N.Y.U. Finalists and other award winners got $2,500 scholarship grants. To make the cut, each student first won a competition as the best male or female high school performer in one of 31 regions. More than 1,000 schools and 50,000 students competed for honors.”
  
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• Dürer Never Saw A Rhinoceros, But His Woodcut Of One Was A Megahit (And Wasn’t Too Far Off)

  01-07-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Five hundred years ago in 1516, the first rhinoceros seen in Europe since the days of the Roman Empire drowned off the coast of Italy in a shipwreck. … This was the rhinoceros portrayed by Albrecht Dürer in his famous woodblock print of 1515. … [He] was like most people in Europe: he never actually saw the rhinoceros. He relied on a written description and sketch sent from Lisbon.”
  
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• Why Social Networks Built Around Music Won’t Work

  01-07-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The road to success as a music-based social network is riddled with obstacles that so far, and so far no one seems to have figured out how to overcome them.”
  
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• George Henry Longly at Red Bull Studios New York 

  01-07-2016 18:31 via artnews.com
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• ‘The Work Helps Me Remember’: Nan Goldin’s Photographs of Friends and Lovers, in 1993 and 2006

  01-07-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  With the Museum of Modern Art in New York having recently put on view Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency—a 1993 slide show of photographs of herself, her friends, and her lovers during the AIDS crisis—here are two excerpts from … Read More
  
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• Florida Man Decapitates 875-Year-Old Statue

  01-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the middle of the night earlier this month, 33-year-old Jorge Arizamendoza pried open an iron gate and scaled a fence at the Ancient Spanish Monastery in North Miami Beach, a 12th-century structure from Segovia which William Randolph Hearst brought to the U.S. piece by piece. He then destroyed the head of a statue of King Alfonso VII of Castile and León from 1141. (Three days later, he came for Sunday Mass and threatened to shoot the priest and congregation, at which point he was arres
  
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• How Much TV Are YOU Watching? Here’s How Much Your Neighbors Are Watching

  01-07-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The average American watches an astonishing 4.3 hours of TV a day, according to a new report from Nielsen. Add in DVR time, and that number gets up to 5 hours a day.”
  
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• TV On The Radio: Analog Television Signals Squat At The Far Left Of The FM Dial

  01-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As analog TV gave way to digital, a handful of risk-taking broadcasters, sensing an opportunity, have started to run those analog TV stations as FM radio stations – big FCC plans be damned. The shift is surprisingly contentious in the world of broadcast. Today, we talk about the special superpowers of Channel 6, the analog TV station on the FM dial.”
  
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• The Golden Age Of Television Reaches Europe, And Talented Screenwriters Are Skipping The Silver Screen

  01-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The emerging stars of European scriptwriting have been raised on a rich diet of The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad … In the past, the careers of David Chase, David Simon or Vince Gilligan seemed unattainable. But today, with more and more high quality television drama coming out of Europe, such as Engrenages (‘Spiral’) from France, Deutschland 83 from Germany and Gomorra from Italy, the demand for young, creative and talented screenwriters is greater than ever.&rdq
  
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• ‘The Unpredictable Richness of Collage’: In Zurich, Zaha Hadid’s Final Project, the Design for a Kurt Schwitters Show, Goes on View

  01-07-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  In 2010, Galerie Gmurzynska, on the occasion of its show on the great Russian liberator Kazimir Malevich, enlisted Zaha Hadid to fashion its modest storefront space in downtown Zurich into a Suprematist fantasia of exploding geometry. It was an apt … Read More
  
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• One Of The World’s Most Famous Department Stores Is Adding A New 100-Seat Theatre

  01-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Selfridge’s is opening the venue in its Oxford Street store in London. The first production will be Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, performed by theatre company The Faction, which will allow shoppers to watch rehearsals (something which the store’s management compares to passersby looking in the display windows).
  
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• Fruit scrumping, cavaliers and filth in Westminster – the week in art

  01-07-2016 15:41
  
  Jorge Otero-Pailos’ astonishing The Ethics of Dust opens in the Palace of Westminster, removing dirt – but not shame – from parliament. Plus all the week’s other art happenings in your handy weekly dispatchJorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust
  This latex cast of a medieval wall captures the dust and dirt of centuries of British parliamentary history. It is a timely artwork in the Palace of Westminster at a time when the mother of parliaments is threatened by architectura
  
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• Kings of the Hills: On New York’s Governors Island, Adriaan Geuze, West 8, and Rachel Whiteread Craft a Rustic Landscape

  01-07-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  On July 19, the Hills, ten acres of parkland on the southern edge of Governors Island will open to the public after three years of construction, accessible by a seven-minute ferry ride from Lower Manhattan. In those three years of work, Dutch … Read More
  
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• A Gorgeous New Shade Of Blue That Chemists Created By Accident

  01-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mas Subramanian and his team at Oregon State University weren’t looking to create colors; they were just mixing chemicals together to see what they could produce. They were aiming for something with an electronics application. Instead, they got YInMn Blue – a new and vibrant blue pigment.”
  
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• Origin story: what does Darwin's taste in art tell us about the scientist?

  01-07-2016 15:28
  
  Restorers at Down House, where Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, have discovered the scientist’s passion for Renaissance art. His collection sheds light on how he saw God, nature and himselfLeonardo da Vinci looked over Charles Darwin’s shoulder as he wrote On the Origin of Species. Darwin in turn saw him every day as he entered his study to work among his collections of bird bones, barnacles and notes from the global voyage on HMS Beagle that gave him an idea that would change
  
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• Sorry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Basing A Country’s Governance Solely On ‘The Weight Of Evidence’ Could Not Work

  01-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Wednesday, America’s star astrophysicist sent out this tweet: “Earth needs a virtual country: #Rationalia, with a one-line Constitution: All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence.” Jesse Singal explains that “it is, in fact, a pretty dumb tweet – uncharacteristically so, given how smart the author is – but one which usefully sums up a common misconception held by folks who bang the drum loudest for science and reason.”
  
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• This Theater Slashed Ticket Prices To Increase And Diversify Its Audiences – ‘What Happened Next Was A Revelation’

  01-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2005, Signature Theatre, an off-Broadway house on far West 42nd Street, “did a very hard-to-do thing. They convinced a big corporation, Time Warner, to hand the theater $500,000 to try to chip away at the price barrier. Before that grant, tickets to Signature’s shows had cost around $55. After the grant, they cost just $15.” (includes audio)
  
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• ‘Urgent’ Restoration Work At The Chapelle Royale At Versailles

  01-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The three-year, €11 million project – which will repair cracks in the masonry that are causing structural instability, overhaul the slate roofing, repair fractured lead ornaments and corroded soldering in the stained-glass windows, and restore degraded exterior statuary – will begin next year. Concerts and other activities inside the chapel should not be affected. (in French; Google Translate version here)
  
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• Morning Links: $3 Billion Art Feud Edition

  01-07-2016 14:37 via artnews.com
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• The National Youth Orchestra Of The USA Now Has A Junior Varsity Team

  01-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “National Youth Orchestra 2, formed this year under the auspices of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, has teenagers from around the country learning their professional craft with some of the busiest members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.” David Patrick Stearns watches them at work.
  
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• Talking To A Ballerina Just Minutes After She Danced Sleeping Beauty For The First Time

  01-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cassandra Trenary of American Ballet Theater: “I had so much fun. There were moments that didn’t go so well, but I was able to get to a place mentally where they didn’t freak me out. It didn’t ruin anything. I was able to move past it and breathe.”
  
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• Who Taught The Latest Tarzan How To Move? A Ballet Choreographer

  01-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For The Legend of Tarzan, … director David Yates wanted his leading man Alexander Skarsgård to be the most authentic and instinctive Tarzan ever seen. Whom did he task with making it happen? Step forward, Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor. Getting English ballet’s most respected choreographer to train the lord of the apes may not seem an obvious move. But director Yates knew exactly what he was doing.”
  
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• Anatomy of an artwork: Phillip Lai’s Untitled, 2016

  01-07-2016 14:00
  
  The London-based artist wants to give us a spatial experience with fimiliar objects“Often there’s an offhand quality to the work.” So says Lai about his recent output, all of which has involved objects, from lampshades to concrete blocks, arranged in an oddly poetic manner that belies and undermines their otherwise prosaic nature. Here, a blue bucket, attached to a wall, is partially filled with uncooked rice. Continue reading...
  
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• Black Chicago, The MacArthur Foundation, And the Ethics Of Cultural Philanthropy

  01-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stating “The children of Chicago are demanding that $100 million of the $7 billion MacArthur Foundation has in assets be used to invest in Black communities and help Black children in Chicago survive violence in their communities,” the city’s Black Star Project staged a march last week on the foundation’s headquarters. Zoe Mendelson writes, “Of course foundations can have their own funding priorities, but at what point does an emergency in their hometown merit speci
  
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• Diversity And Inclusion In British Arts – How Much Progress In 25 Years?

  01-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arts Council England’s National Council member David Bryan considers what has happened in the quarter-century since he first wrote a major article on the subject and offers five possible actions for the future.
  
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• Explore Georgia O'Keeffe's world: from New Mexico to New York

  01-07-2016 13:15
  
  As a new exhibition of the artist's work opens at the Tate Modern, here's how to follow in her footsteps in the US and beyond
  
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• The wild beauty of Georgia O’Keeffe

  01-07-2016 13:00
  
  O’Keeffe’s paintings are often seen as displays of flamboyant female sexuality. But a broader reading of her art suggests that it came from the life of a new kind of womanForget the morning glories and orificial irises, with their attendant readings of flamboyant female sexuality. If there is a painting that encapsulates the mysteries of Georgia O’Keeffe, the subject of a major forthcoming retrospective at Tate Modern , it’s of something far more humble, far less glamorou
  
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• Belgian founder of Beijing’s leading private art museum seeks new owner

  01-07-2016 12:25
  
  The Belgian collector Guy Ullens yesterday announced plans to sell his Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing to a new benefactor and owner. Ullens also plans to sell the remainder of his collection of Chinese contemporary art, which is held separately from the gallery.We are looking to make an agreement with the right buyer to secure the future of UCCA for the years to come, a spokesman for Ullens and his centre tells The Art Newspaper. "UCCA will continue to function, presenting
  
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• Africa's first major Matisse show to open in Johannesburg

  01-07-2016 11:54
  
  The first Matisse exhibition on the African continent is opening in Johannesburg, South Africa, at Standard Bank Gallery in July. Titled Rhythm and Meaning, the exhibition has been organised with the Muse Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrsis in northern France which has loaned most of the works. The idea came from the French Institute in Johannesburg and the French embassy.Federico Freschi, the dean of the faculty of art, design and architecture at the University of Johannesburg, has curated the show wi
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.30.16

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  Beware the volunteer sentence
  It can be comforting when a solution or a path presents itself to you as the obvious choice. When you feel comfortable moving to the next problem or question without even thinking much about the one at hand. … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-06-30A problem with classical music publicists
  I’ve said these things before. But they need to be said again, following up on my last post, about a quick way to improve almost any publicity pitch
  
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• I Stand With The Arts has been a remarkable moment for the arts. We mustn't stop here | Lee Lewis

  01-07-2016 10:24
  
  Actors have been delivering direct appeals to audiences at curtain calls across New South Wales to help their fight to have arts funding restored
  After a performance of All My Sons at Sydney Theatre Company on Wednesday, as the audience applauded the magic that comes when great writing collides with great performance, Eryn-Jean Norvill stepped forward and quietened us all.Standing on the Roslyn Packer stage, she delivered a version of the same speech that was happening at curtain calls in every
  
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• All-nighter arts festival to transform London

  01-07-2016 09:00
  
  The ICA’s Art Night promises to perform magic on a number of famous and secret London sites that aren’t normally open to the publicOn Saturday 2 July, the sun won’t set until 9.20pm, but by then London’s first Art Night festival will be well under way. From 6pm until the early hours of the morning the Institute of Contemporary Arts is going to magically transform some of the city’s most familiar sites, including the Duke of York Steps and Covent Garden Market Place
  
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• MIT Algorithm Predicts Future By Watching TV Clips

  01-07-2016 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After the AI devoured all that video to train itself, the researchers fed the algorithm a single frame from a video it had not seen and tasked it with predicting what would happen next. The algorithm got it right about 43 percent of the time.”
  
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• Great British Fake Off? Copies hung in art galleries for competition

  01-07-2016 01:01
  
  Sky Arts has swapped seven paintings for fake copies at galleries across Britain, and has tasked the public to find the frauds Seven British paintings have been removed from the walls of galleries and replaced with fakes in the name of a national TV competition.Sky Arts said they had organised the deception with the full cooperation of galleries that include the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Continue reading...
  
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• There Goes the Neighborhood: Pentti Mokkonen Takes a Sharp-Eyed Look at Los Angeles Architecture and Gentrification at Jenny’s

  01-07-2016 00:09 via artnews.com
  The long walkway that leads up to Jenny’s in Silver Lake stretches back from the sidewalk, past a purple-painted insurance shop, and hovers above an overgrown ravine. For his current show, “Mur Murs,” Pentti Mokkonen hung a canvas-on-panel painting along … Read More
  
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• Apple Patents Idea To Block Fans From Taking Pictures At Concerts

  01-07-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The patent describes a smartphone camera receiving coded infrared signals beamed from emitters in public places. The handset could then offer on-screen information or disable the camera functionality to stop pictures being taken.”
  
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