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• Ryan McNamara’s ‘Back to School’ Benefit at MoMA PS1

  26-09-2016 23:17 via artnews.com
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• What Machine Learning Is Teaching Us About How We Learn

  26-09-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By bringing the tools of computation and machine intuition to the table, AI researchers are giving us a more complete picture of how we learn. They are also broadening the study of education to include quantitative, numerical models of the learning process itself. “The thing that AI brings to the table is that it forces us to get into the details of how everything works,” says John Laird, a computer scientist at the University of Michigan. If there was any doubt that good teac
  
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• Want a piece of a former Met curator's collection? It'll cost less than you think

  26-09-2016 23:00
  
  Seeing what kind of art curators choose to live with is like finding out where chefs go to dinner. They may not make the obvious or fashionable choice, but they usually have a good reason.
  Next month, Christies is due to sell works from the eclectic collection of Everett Fahy, the former curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the former director of the Frick Collection in New York. The 46 paintings, works on paper and objects will lead Christies Old Masters sale on
  
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• The Art Newspaper’s 25th anniversary survey

  26-09-2016 23:00
  
  Speculation in art is taken for granted today and the art system often seems to have swallowed up art itself. Does art still have a higher purpose? What is it for in these troubling, dangerous times? Has it the strength to face up to the challenges of Trump and Trumpism, the failings of capitalism and the disaster the West has done so much to create in the Middle East, or was it always a fatuous, hubristic illusion that it could make much of a difference?
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• Jonathan Horowitz provides pop, PBR and political commentary at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

  26-09-2016 23:00
  
  THE DAYS OF THIS SOCIETY IS NUMBERED, screamed a well-known text work by Rirkrit Tiravanija over the watch party for the first presidential debate at Gavin Browns Enterprise on 26 September. Some 100 people basked in the blue glow of Clintons televised victory, surrounded by political works from Christopher Knowles, Rob Pruitt, Deborah Kass, John Giorno, and Dread Scott.  The party was organised by artist Jonathan Horowitz. Something really ominous is going on in the country right now and
  
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• Iraq’s newest museum was determined to open against the odds

  26-09-2016 23:00
  
  Few outsiders can imagine the challenges of creating a new museum in Iraq. Just a week before the Basrah Museum was scheduled to open inside a converted former palace of Saddam Hussein today (27 September) most of the collection had yet to arrive from Baghdad.
  The Basrah Museum has been planned for eight years and will join the National Museum in Baghdad as one of the most important institutions in Iraq. For the first time in a generation, the people of southern Iraq will have their own museuma
  
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• Farideh Lashai’s Goya-inspired digital epic to go on show at the British Museum

  26-09-2016 23:00
  An epic work by the late Iranian artist Farideh Lashai, inspired by Francisco de Goyas Disasters of War series (1810-20), will be the centrepiece of a major exhibition at the British Museum in London in 2018, after being shown alongside the Spanish artists work in Madrid, as well as in Ghent in Belgium. The museum acquired the workthe first piece of digital art to be bought as part of its growing collection of works by Middle Eastern artistsin 2015.The work, entitled When I Count, There Are Onl
  
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• Bring me the head of Donald Trump

  26-09-2016 23:00
  
  Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich was the birthplace of Dada, the absurdist art movement, 100 years ago, and it is still a venue where rebels such as Frank Perrin enjoy wreaking havoc. Earlier this month, as part of Manifesta 11, the French photographer invited participants to eat a cake resembling the head of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The public [was] given the power to devour the icon of every capitalistic fantasy or clich in the same place that gave birth to the Dada move
  
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• Attacks on culture can be crimes against humanity

  26-09-2016 23:00
  
  Robert Bevan
  Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, which advises Unesco on world heritageOnly an aesthete with a warped sense of priorities would put crimes against culture on a par with crimes against people. That dusty canard has resurfaced with the trial in The Hague of Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction in 2012 of a mosque and nine of Timbuktus World Heritage Site-listed mud-built shrines.
  Al Mahdis trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first devoted
  
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• Here’s a Photo of Jeff Koons’s Newly Installed Permanent Sculpture in Sacramento, California

  26-09-2016 22:39 via artnews.com
  It feels like Jeff Koons has been a little quiet in recent months, so it was wonderful to hear this morning that he was out in Sacramento, California, today to unveil a permanent work commissioned for a plaza outside the Golden … Read More
  
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• The Currency Of Feelings – What’s It Worth To You?

  26-09-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The primacy of feelings in our economy has given rise to a new field of scholarly inquiry. ‘Affect studies’ refers to humanistic and social-scientific investigations of the ways that feelings are generated, experienced, and interpreted. An affect is a particular kind of feeling, one distinct from an emotion. For academics in the field, affects are feelings that reside not in individual people but in social groups, institutions, or physical spaces.”
  
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• ‘If we don’t work together, we will see very dark times,’ says outgoing V&A director Martin Roth

  26-09-2016 21:34
  
  Dozens of museum leaders from the US and China are gathering in New York this week to compare notes and brainstorm ways to promote cultural exchange between their two nations. The US-China Museum Summit, which kicks off today (until 28 September), is the third biannual meeting between the two groups and is co-organsed by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) and the Asia Society.As the speakers at the summit revealed, cultural exchange is much easier said than done. In recent years, practical c
  
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• Turner Prize shortlist pieces explained – video

  26-09-2016 21:26
  
  Linsey Young, curator of contemporary art for Tate Britain explains the thinking behind some of this year’s turner prize nominations. They include a giant buttocks, a model train and a brick suit and can be viewed in the Tate Britain in London. The giant buttocks is the work of Anthea Hamilton; a train stopped on it’s tracks by leaves is part of an installation by Josephine Pryde and the pennies on the ground are part of work by Michael Dean.Continue reading...
  
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• This Is About To Become The Largest Private Museum In America

  26-09-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the new addition, dubbed the Pavilions, Glenstone’s exhibition space will increase fivefold. Eight of the nine discrete but linked buildings will be dedicated to the work of a single artist, including Brice Marden, Charles Ray, Michael Heizer and Cy Twombly. (The ninth pavilion will house special exhibitions.)”
  
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• People Who Can Switch Between Street Languages Use Same Cognitive Muscles As Bilinguals

  26-09-2016 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the United States, a bidialectal person might be someone who speaks both Standard American English and African-American Vernacular English (called AAVE but also known as ‘Ebonics’), which differ a lot in pronunciation, syntax and vocabulary – so much so that AAVE has controversially been called a distinct language. So do bidialectals enjoy the same cognitive benefits as bilinguals?”
  
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• General Manager

  26-09-2016 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra invites nominations and applications for the position of General Manager. The General Manager will engage in a broad array of activity, with focus in particular on duties related to attracting and maintaining audiences, event planning, and office management.
  The OrganizationCurrently in its 36th season, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra (TSO) stands as a model for regional orchestras in the country. As an integral part of Tallahassee’s cultural scene, th
  
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• They’re Training Watson To Recognize Emotion, Personality

  26-09-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And then what? As the artificial intelligence computer gets better at understanding humans it starts to interact with them in more complex ways. For now though, Watson is coming up with movie trailers…
  
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• Executive Director – Boston Court Performing Arts Center

  26-09-2016 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At Boston Court, every decision is an artistic decision. That’s why LA Times theatre critic Charles McNulty said about us: “If I were an American playwright wanting an assured, smartly challenging staging of my latest play, I’d put Boston Court at the top of my wish list.” That’s why LA Times music critic Mark Swed lauded one of Boston Court’s recent concerts for its “brilliantly knowing performances.”
  We are looking for a very particular kind of e
  
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• The LA Dance Company That Uses Toys And Architecture To Careen Off

  26-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Diavolo’s taste for heights, soaring numbers and gigantic playthings hasn’t changed much since its early days, but the method behind the madness has evolved from freewheeling experimentation to fine-tuned research and development, especially after the company was commissioned to develop a trilogy of dance works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2005.
  
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• Sacred works, secret tunnels: Jarvis Cocker's journey into outsider art

  26-09-2016 19:28
  
  Almost 30 years ago Pulp’s frontman fell in love with the untrained, obsessive ‘outsider artists’. As he brings them to the Gallery of Everything, he talks about DIY genius – and getting lost in Robert Garcet’s tunnelsIt is early Sunday afternoon, and the northern end of Chiltern Street in London’s Marylebone presents an intriguing study in contrasts. On one side of the road, brunch is being served at celebrity hangout the Chiltern Firehouse. A succession of c
  
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• MOCAD Adds Jonathan Horowitz Hillary Clinton Sculpture to Current Exhibition

  26-09-2016 19:11 via artnews.com
  As the nightmare 2016 election season continues to ramp up, some art institutions are reacting. A bonded bronze Jonathan Horowitz sculpture of a young Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton is a Person Too, has been added to the current Museum of Contemporary Art … Read More
  
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• The Payoff For Theatre That Stays Small And Local

  26-09-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seems the smaller the community, the more space there is to expand and embellish local narratives.Mixing one part fiction, one part myth, and one part truth, these narratives flourish in the festivals, parades, and plaques that have become the cultural landmarks of a city five miles north of Boston.”
  
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• Badlands Unlimited Launches ‘Files,’ a Series of Downloadable Works

  26-09-2016 18:56 via artnews.com
  Badlands Unlimited, the publishing house cofounded by Paul Chan, is now selling on its website a series of works called “Files,” which one can download upon purchase. The first three artists who have put some pretty wild downloadable artwork up for … Read More
  
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• Bass Museum Announces Ten-Year Acquisitions Initiative, Starting With Work by Ugo Rondinone and Sylvie Fleury

  26-09-2016 18:49 via artnews.com
  Miami Beach’s Bass Museum has announced an acquisitions initiative that will add “a major work of contemporary art” to its permanent collection every year in the Fall over the next decade. The first set of acquired works are a Ugo Rondinone … Read More
  
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• The Next Big Intellectual Revolution Is Coming

  26-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All of the past “justice revolutions” have stemmed from improved communications. Oppression thrives on distance, on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed. The next revolution will not abolish the consequences of place of birth, but the privileges of nationhood will be tempered. While the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment around the world today seems to point in the opposite direction, the sense of injustice will be amplified as communications continue to grow. Ultimately, recog
  
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• Jacques d’Amboise – Still Dancing At 82

  26-09-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I danced for a long time before I asked myself the question,” he says. The question being, “What is dance?” He now thinks it’s “an invention by human beings to express space and time…to express wonder and emotion by losing control in how we move in time.” Needless to say, that’s something everyone should have in life, in some form, at some time or another. It’s so obvious to D’Amboise he never even says that.
  
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• Political Fantasist: Josh Kline Lectures to a Jam-Packed Auditorium at the New School

  26-09-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
  Last week, the excitement surrounding Josh Kline kept mounting. At Phillips in Midtown Manhattan, in an auction called “The New Now,” a 2011 sculpture by Kline shot $20,000 over its high estimate, ultimately selling for $37,500. Then, a day later, at … Read More
  
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• Dear Class Of 2020: You’ve Been Cheated. Time To Build A Bridge To The 16th Century

  26-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most momentous event in your intellectual formation was the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which ushered in our disastrous fixation on testing. Your generation is the first to have gone through primary and secondary school knowing no alternative to a national regimen of assessment. And your professors are only now beginning to realize how this unrelenting assessment has stunted your imaginations.”
  
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• Editor’s Letter: The Top 200 Issue | Fall 2016

  26-09-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  As we at ARTnews were putting this issue together, I kept returning to the story of Ernest Hemingway and The Farm. Hemingway bought Joan Miró’s painting of that title—an exacting inventory of a typical Catalan farm, from donkey to watering … Read More
  
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• Where Are The Women Artists? Not Here (And Maybe They Shouldn’t Be?)

  26-09-2016 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first major survey of abstract expressionism since 1959, which has just opened at the Royal Academy, has been accused of displaying too much testosterone. Commentary developed on social media from early visitors asking: “Where were the women?” But what exactly were they expecting? The telling word from the critic is “few”. There were not many women in the movement to be included in the first place.
  
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• The Country’s Only Scientific Glassblowing Degree Program

  26-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As they blow into glass tubes, they hover over bright orange flames that reach as high as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hot enough for those stiff tubes to bend like rubbery taffy and twist into candy-cane shapes or snake coils that look machine-made.”
  
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• E-books May Be Slipping, But Publishers Hear Audio Is The Next Big Thing

  26-09-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “E-book sales have fallen precipitously for months, in part because many publishers have raised their prices after negotiating with Amazon and gaining the ability to set their own prices.”
  
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• The Person Dancers Depend On To Make Those Tutus Flare

  26-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If fashion is chimerical fantasy, Mr. Happel brings a dose of earthbound reality to the work: Will all that detailed embroidery read from far away? Will dancers actually be able to raise their arms in that bodice?”
  
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• David Hockney on what turns a picture into a masterpiece

  26-09-2016 16:00
  
  Rembrandt’s perfect drawing, Caravaggio’s invention of Hollywood lighting, Monet capturing a moment in time. David Hockney and critic Martin Gayford discuss the craft behind the greatest artDavid Hockney: The moment you put down two or three marks on a piece of paper, you get relationships. They’ll start to look like something. If you draw two little lines they might look like two figures or two trees. One was made first, one second. We read all kinds of things into marks. You
  
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• Consumer Reports: Matthew Linde

  26-09-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Matthew Linde is an artist, curator, and student living in New York. He is the director of the Melbourne-based fashion exhibition space and store Centre for Style, which was included in this year’s Berlin Biennale. Linde is also a Columnist … Read More
  
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• Moscow gallery shuts US photographer's show after vandalism attack

  26-09-2016 15:48
  
  A Moscow-based photography gallery has taken down an exhibition by the US photographer Jock Sturges after being accused by pro-Kremlin activists and officials of promoting pedophilia. Sturges is known for his often nude images of children and adolescents and his work has been controversial in the US in the past.During an impromptu news conference at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography on Sunday (25 September), after the gallery was raided by police and uniformed activists, one of the ac
  
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• Moscow gallery shuts US photographer's show after urine attack

  26-09-2016 15:48
  
  A Moscow-based photography gallery has taken down an exhibition by the US photographer Jock Sturges after being accused by pro-Kremlin activists and officials of promoting pedophilia. Sturges is known for his often nude images of children and adolescents and his work has been controversial in the US in the past.During an impromptu news conference at the Lumiere Brothers Photography Center on Sunday (25 September), after the gallery was raided by police and activists, one of the activists poured
  
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• In The Shadows Of Hollywood, Does Abuse Of Young Actors Thrive?

  26-09-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the event resembles a harmless and burlesque version of the better-known award shows, there also has been a darker side to it at times. A handful of people who were actively involved with the show or attended it have been found by authorities to have troubling backgrounds with minors, including two men who were convicted of committing sex crimes against children.”
  
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• When A Theatre Venue Shuts Down Suddenly In Virginia, Arts Groups Have To Scramble

  26-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Other venues are stepping in to fill the artistic void, but many people are still expressing disappointment and doubt about the future of the downtown theater.”
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Janet Borden’s Collection of Howard Holt Ceramics

  26-09-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.“The internet has made it a lot less fun for me—now it’s just a matter of putting a big bid in,” New York photography dealer Janet … Read More
  
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• The Superhuman Demands Of Singing Tristan

  26-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Young singers usually build their careers by taking on gradually longer and more demanding roles. But the metallic colors and lower vocal center of gravity of prospective Tristans often make them an awkward fit for traditional young tenor repertory.”
  
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• A Sneaky Idea To Ship Bikes Safely By Disguising Them As Televisions

  26-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apparently, delivery companies value flat-screen TVs more than bikes.
  
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• Morning Links: Marina Abramovic and Ulay Trial Recap Edition

  26-09-2016 14:51 via artnews.com
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• The Ballerina Triplet Who Escaped The Nazis But Is Still Dancing [AUDIO]

  26-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When things got painful, we’d hug each other and speak either French or German with each other and dance together.”
  
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• Runners but no riders line up for the Turner prize show

  26-09-2016 14:34
  
  The leaves on the line stopping Josephine Pryde’s choo-choo are not the only bum note among Tate Britain’s contendersVisitors to this year’s Turner prize exhibition will be able to admire a 16ft polystyrene backside and contemplate poverty as they walk round a vast pile of penny pieces, but they will not be able to ride a model train.The artist Josephine Pryde has decommissioned a choo-choo train which gallerygoers in San Francisco, Berlin and Bristol were allowed to ride on. C
  
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• Yes, Let’s Keep On Talking About Who ‘Gets’ To Write What, And Why

  26-09-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A writer has the right to inhabit any character she pleases — she’s always had it and will continue to have it. The complaint seems to be less that some people ask writers to think about cultural appropriation, and more that a writer wishes her work not to be critiqued for doing so, that instead she get a gold star for trying.”
  
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• Fine, Let’s Talk About Sombreros And Lionel Shriver

  26-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Francine Prose: “Like much of Shriver’s talk, this paragraph contains a kernel of truth encased by a husk of cultural and historical blindness. It seems clear that one part of the fiction writer’s job is ‘to step into other people’s shoes.’ But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a hat is more than just a hat. Sometimes it is a symbol—and a racist one, at that.”
  
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• Turner prize 2016 exhibition review – bleak and baffling, but no bum deal

  26-09-2016 14:13
  
  Tate Britain, LondonWith curious junk, lumpy sculptures and a train to nowhere, this year’s shortlisted Turner prize artists – Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde – conspire to both baffle and delightButtocks and boots and blue skies in June; knife blades and cotton buds and a train going nowhere; concrete and pennies and lives on the edge: this is perhaps the most peculiar and baffling Turner prize show I can remember. I haven’t enjoyed being
  
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• The Writing Life, And All Of The Self-Sabotage It Includes

  26-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I am locked in a battle between self-doubt and self-discipline, and the former usually wins. I have the concentration of… oh, I like your shoes. It is so much easier to plummet down the sinkhole of Twitter.”
  
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• The Intimate Details Of Theatre Poster Design

  26-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I wanted something that you would look at, and without having it hit you heavily, you would understand it came from the ’20s and ’30s. We wanted to show a certain modernity that had style.”
  
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