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• Race across the city: Art in Odd Places festival returns to New York’s 14th Street

  05-10-2016 23:57
  
  You dont need a door: this is how Ed Woodham, the founder and director of the grassroots public art non-profit Art in Odd Places, defines public art, explains Elissa Moorhead, a co-curator of the ninth edition of the eponymous festival. The door-less event takes place this week (6-9 October) in New York along 14th Street, from Avenue C in the East Village all the way west to the Hudson River. The 2016 theme is Racenot only an extremely timely topic, but also relevant to the festivals setting, i
  
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• What Does It Take To Sell 10,000 Tickets For Three Days Of Dance In Toronto?

  05-10-2016 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of course none of this adjusts for the impact of price or capacity or run length, but 10,000 tickets sure does suggest that dance has a ready-made audience in the city, that dance isn’t just a fringe interest, and that if you advertise well and offer affordable, high-quality material, the demand for dance is there.”
  
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• At Ease With G.I. Pearlstein: Philip Pearlstein Captures World War II on Paper at Betty Cuningham

  05-10-2016 23:07 via artnews.com
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• Young galleries flex their muscles at Frieze London

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  Young galleries have been having a tough time of late, as rising rents in cities around the world, gentrification and a cooling market for contemporary art have piled on the pressure.Frieze, however, is doing its bit to help newbies. The enlarged Focus section, dedicated to galleries founded in or after 2004, has had a revamp and includes a new area devoted to live performances, for which exhibitors pay only a small administration fee. The art fair has also reduced the price of stands by betwee
  
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• What the Tate bought at Frieze with the help of new talent-agency sponsors

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  Huseyin Bahri Alptekin, various works (2003-07)
  RampaThe artist, writer, lecturer and curator, who died in Istanbul in 2007, is considered to be one of Turkeys foremost 20th-century artists. Alptekin has worked in a variety of media, exploring the underbelly of globalisation through travel, place, memory and time.Leonor Antunes, various works (2012-15)
  Galeria Luisa StrinaBorn in Lisbon and now based in Berlin, Antunes creates sculptures that reflect their environment and refer to works by ofte
  
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• National Portrait Gallery shows Picasso as a canny caricaturist

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  When Pablo Picasso unveiled Les Demoiselles dAvignon in his Paris studio in 1907, the painting was greeted by bafflement, anger and even laughter. The influential critic Flix Fnon advised the 25-year-old artist to take up caricature. If the comparison rankled at the time, Picasso later conceded the point, declaring: All good portraits are in some degree caricatures.Caricature is a thread that runs through Picasso Portraits, an exhibition of more than 80 works opening today at Londons National P
  
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• Interview: Philippe Parreno goes with the flow

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  Throughout his distinguished 30-year career, the French artist Philippe Parreno has earned a reputation for collaborations with artists as well as practitioners in a wide range of fields, including film, music, animation, sound and science, that explore and shake up how we can, and should, experience art. He sees an exhibition as a work of art and a medium in its own rightan idea he has pursued with a particular vengeance in his Turbine Hall commission at Londons Tate Modern. Entitled Anywhen,
  
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• In pictures: PAD London

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  Finn Juhl, Chieftain Chair (1949)Galerie le Beau, mid-six-figure sum
  There is a photograph of the Danish designer Finn Juhl lounging sideways across this chair, his legs casually slung over the arm. For the dealer Stanislas Gokelaere, it epitomises Juhls playful approach to design, his rupture from classical Danish design and the influence of Modern artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Joan Mir and Henry Moore. It is also inspired by the forms of African tribal weapons; the story goes that after K
  
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• Foundation opens new space in Buenos Aires

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Fundacin Arte, established in Buenos Aires by the entrepreneur and collector Federico Castro Debernardi, is announcing its opening exhibition, titled Evolutionary Travels, with a launch at the Argentine embassy here in London, on 6 October.I am extremely passionate about the foundations mission and believe it will make a change in the dialogue between Argentina and the rest of the world, Debernardi says.
  Evolutionary Travels, which opens on 6 December at the foundations home in the Palais d
  
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• Fluorescent rabbits, slime mould and bacteria: artists get biological

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  We are in the midst of a golden age of biotechnology. Cloning, human augmentation, DNA editing, genetic manipulation and xenotransplantation (inter-species grafting of organs or tissues) used to be the stuff of science fiction or gothic novelsMary Shelleys Frankenstein comes to mindbut have now become fact. As biological scientists reshape the way we view ourselves and the world around us, artists are responding by engaging with living materials to express the opportunities and fears that come
  
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• Five years on and the Clyfford Still Museum is still making discoveries

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  Five years after the Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors, much of its collection has yet to be examined. More than 300 paintings by the pioneering Abstract Expressionist whose works fill the museum remain unstretched. A lot of the paintings still smell like they are dryingwere the first people to unroll them since he made them, says Dean Sobel, the museums director. Sometimes it feels as though we are only about five minutes ahead of our audience.
  During Stills lifetime, the audience for his
  
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• Documenta to restage Acropolis of banned books

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  A huge replica of the Acropolis in Athens, made from 100,000 banned books, will rise in the Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, Germany, next year, as part of Documenta 14 (Athens, 8 April-16 July; Kassel, 10 June-17 September 2017). The work is a restaging of The Parthenon of Books by the Argentine artist Marta Minujn, who created the piece in Buenos Aires in 1983, shortly after the collapse of the countrys dictatorship.The installation will include books that remain censored in some territories and vo
  
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• Collectors mix their own drinks at Frieze London

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  Everyone loves to show off a bit at Frieze, and extrovert visitors have been taking full advantage of the karaoke machine on A Gentil Cariocas stand, provided by the Rio-based artists collective Opavivar! At yesterdays preview, Frank Sinatras New York, New York seemed especially popularand for those feeling a little shy, another Opavivar! work takes the form of a cocktail trolley laden with Aperol, vodka, whisky and rum, with a juicer attached. But any drink-dispensing is strictly DIY, with a ga
  
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• Burkina Faso via Skype

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  A slice of cultural life in Burkina Faso is being beamed live into Frieze London. Operndorf Afrika (opera village), a cultural and educational project in the West African country, was founded by the German artist, theatre director and film-maker Christoph Schlingensief in 2010, six months before he died. Since then, it has grown to encompass a primary school with 250 pupils, a hospital ward, four homes for hospital employees and several guest houses. Add to that an artist-in-residence programme
  
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• Artists get biological

  05-10-2016 23:00
  
  We are in the midst of a golden age of biotechnology. Cloning, human augmentation, DNA editing, genetic manipulation and xenotransplantation (inter-species grafting of organs or tissues) used to be the stuff of science fiction or gothic novelsMary Shelleys Frankenstein comes to mindbut have now become fact. As biological scientists reshape the way we view ourselves and the world around us, artists are responding by engaging with living materials to express the opportunities and fears that come
  
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• BBC Radio Chief Steps Down And Warns About What Journalism Has Become

  05-10-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are unconstrained in our speed of coverage, unmatched in our fleetness of foot but do we lack the depth that we might achieve if we took our foot off the accelerator, or put the handbrake on, and stopped to observe more closely the world on which we are reporting?”
  
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• Ed Ruscha at Gagosian, London

  05-10-2016 22:29 via artnews.com
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• Police in Greece arrest 26 in bust of alleged antiquities smuggling ring

  05-10-2016 22:09
  
  Greek police have busted what they say is a criminal organisation that has been looting antiquities from ancient sites in the country for the past 10 years and smuggling them out to auction houses and private buyers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK. A spokesman for the Patras police department in western Greece, which led the 14-month investigation, said on Wednesday that more than 50 people were involved in the ring and 26 arrests have been made.
  The two alleged ringleaders of the g
  
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• VP candidate Tim Kaine sponsors gun art show in Washington, DC

  05-10-2016 22:08
  
  The US Senator Tim Kaine, who took the stage in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday 4 October, is sponsoring an exhibition inspired by art made from decommissioned guns in a Senate office building in Washington, DC. The show, Guns in the Hands of Artists (until 7 October), has been traveling the country for the past two years and makes its final stop in the US capital just one month before the presidential election.
  For the show, 30 artistsincluding Mel Chin, William Villalongo, R. Luke Dub
  
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• VP candidate Tim Kaine sponsors anti-gun show in Washington, DC

  05-10-2016 22:08
  
  The US Senator Tim Kaine, who took the stage in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday 4 October, is sponsoring an exhibition inspired by art made from decommissioned guns in a Senate office building in Washington, DC. The show, Guns in the Hands of Artists (until 7 October), has been traveling the country for the past two years and makes its final stop in the US capital just one month before the presidential election.
  For the show, 30 artistsincluding Mel Chin, William Villalongo, R. Luke Dub
  
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• Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis: Staff Member Verbally, and Nearly Physically, Attacked Following Kelley Walker Show Controversy

  05-10-2016 22:03 via artnews.com
  Amid an ongoing controversy surrounding the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis’s Kelley Walker show, which includes works that some have alleged are racist and offensive, a staff member was verbally, and nearly physically, attacked Monday morning, according to the museum. CAM initially … Read More
  
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• Everyone Is Proclaiming That Hollywood Is Dead. No – It’s Just Adapting

  05-10-2016 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cinema remains siloed into “studio” and “indie” efforts, with a good chunk of audiences largely ignoring the latter, while television (which essentially has to be made within a studio system) can offer the kind of adult dramas and politically aware works that are seemingly missing from multiplexes. But these aren’t the signs of a lifeless industry. Film is just doing what it’s always done—finding a way to adapt, survive, and serve new audiences.&r
  
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• Defunct London Orchestra Musicians Play On Under A New Brand

  05-10-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the old Orchestra London’s finances collapsed, its musicians continued to play on in large and small groups. After several variations, the musicians settled on #WePlayOn as a temporary name. Now, a permanent ID is being sought.”
  
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• Carnegie Museum Sets Its Sights on $1 Million Kerry James Marshall Painting as Frieze Opens, Collectors Capitalize on Weak Pound

  05-10-2016 21:26 via artnews.com
  In the opening minutes of Frieze London’s VIP preview this morning, dealers from more than 160 of the world’s top galleries stood by their booths, hoping to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of art despite some reasons for concern: the … Read More
  
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• A Kerry James Marshall Painting Goes to Carnegie Museum for $1 Million as Frieze Opens, Collectors Capitalize on Weak Pound

  05-10-2016 21:26 via artnews.com
  In the opening minutes of Frieze London’s VIP preview this morning, dealers from more than 160 of the world’s top galleries stood by their booths, hoping to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of art despite some reasons for concern: the … Read More
  
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• The New Music Coming Out Of Chicago Could Only Have Been Made There

  05-10-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What comes to mind when I describe the character of Chicago new music are words like “provisional” and “transient”and “conditional” and “contingent” and “fragmented.”
  
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• Man Who Police Believe Knows Where The Stolen Gardner Museum Art Is Close To Death

  05-10-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Robert Gentile, 80, had been scheduled to stand trial last month for selling a loaded firearm to a convicted killer, charges his attorney contends were the product of a federal sting operation intended to pressure Gentile into leading agents to paintings stolen in 1990.”
  
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• Frieze art fair 2016 review: Everyone's a performer in the boozy, fruity house of fun

  05-10-2016 20:12
  
  From the crocheted loo seats to the pram-cum-barbecue and roving wet bar, there are stunts and stage-props galore. Then you turn a corner and find an artwork that sticks in your head and stays thereI have seen painted erections and sculptures of first world war female munitions workers, a perished inflatable dildo and several elephants, and a welcoming lavatory attendant. But not all at the same time, though the conjunction would not surprise me. They are all at the 14th Frieze art fair –
  
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• Frieze Art Fair, London — review

  05-10-2016 19:59
  The irresistible “Nineties” section cleverly sets the context for many of this year’s offerings
  
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• Centre Pompidou Plans To Open New Museum In Brussels

  05-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Centre Pompidou plans to loan works from its 120,000-strong collection, the largest of Modern and contemporary art in Europe.
  
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• Frieze Masters review – for the billionaire who has everything, what about a Magritte?

  05-10-2016 19:06
  
  Regent’s Park, London
  Bacon, Dalí, a relief from ancient Persepolis … this treasure trove of classical and modern masterpieces is dazzling, then exhausting – and finally sickeningWhat do you feel about money? Is it sexy, beautiful, sublime? Or disgusting?Like a giant conceptual artwork, the Frieze Masters art fair forces you to evaluate your attitude to obscene wealth. So much of the time, we talk about 21st-century society in abstractions. It’s all very well goin
  
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• Review: Frieze Art and Architecture conference

  05-10-2016 19:05
  Speakers hint at wider changes to the way cultural institutions and architects interact
  
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• What to see at Frieze Masters 2016

  05-10-2016 18:41
  Some of the oldest works of art are the most resonant at this year’s fair
  
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• Roman coins found in Okinawa castle point to early links between Japan and the West

  05-10-2016 18:24
  
  Several ancient Roman and Ottoman coins have been found in the ruins of the 12th- to 15th-century Katsuren Castle in Okinawa, the first such discovery in Japan. The find suggests a link between Okinawa and the Western world, the local board of education said.
  While most of Japan remained isolated from foreign influence until the 19th century, Okinawaan island equidistant to China and Japanserved as an important trade route with the rest of Asia. But it is a mystery how the coins ended up at the
  
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• A Composer Loses His Hearing… And Fights To Adapt

  05-10-2016 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Because he today relies on a hearing aid to bring his left ear to 70 percent capability and all sound “arrives from the left,” the inner voice and texture of his music has become simpler and more stationary. “It’s like mono-hearing and spatial effects don’t happen anymore.”
  
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• Helping public museums to buy art at Frieze

  05-10-2016 18:18
  The Contemporary Art Society joins forces with the fair
  
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• ‘It Fills Out the Picture’: A Queer ’90s Film Series Comes to New York This October

  05-10-2016 18:09 via artnews.com
  Throughout the month of October, Metrograph, the relatively new art-house-flavored theater on New York’s Lower East Side, is screening movies made in the 1990s that are queer in one way or another. The offerings range from highly political films and documentaries that address … Read More
  
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• Is There A Difference Between ‘Online Jerry Saltz’, The Wild Man Of Art Criticism, And ‘Real-Life Jerry Saltz’? Jerry Says –

  05-10-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think it’s all one big ball of wax by now. I think that there is very little difference anymore between how I write online and how I write in the pages of magazines or when I speak. … When somebody is hearing, reading, seeing me they have a sense that they’re getting at what I might really be. Even though the pervert that is often out on Instagram might not seem like me, it’s me. And my wife approves of about eighty percent of those pictures.”
  
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• UK Tries To Measure Arts Policy Impact (And The Arts Don’t Do So Well)

  05-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If anything, we are skeptical of attempts to measure impact. But arts interventions by the government use the same real-world dollars and cents as interventions in other areas. Shouldn’t we hold government spending to a high standard of effectiveness regardless of what those policies are trying to achieve?”
  
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• Frieze London 2016 promises to confuse and amuse buyers

  05-10-2016 17:27
  
  Art fair, which opens on Thursday, will include pieces by Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry and a plasterboard work that is not all it seemsVisitors to Frieze 2016 can consider splashing out on a Grayson Perry tapestry, a gleaming Anish Kapoor sculpture, or an ancient Cretan parade ground bronze helmet with detailed decorative engravings. Or they can spend £20,000 and own the idea of transporting more than 13 tonnes of plasterboard.The 14th edition of Frieze London opens to the general public on
  
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• Marcel Duchamp’s Mesmerizing Art For Turntables

  05-10-2016 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lépine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day. In between a stand of instant vegetable choppers and another of trash compactors, the Surrealist debuted a series of objects merging his interests in science and art: his Rotoreliefs, decorated discs made to spin on a turntable as optical entertainment.”
  
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• Are These The Eight Most Beautiful Animated Feature Films?

  05-10-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today’s fun-to-argue-over listicle features a mix of famous and lesser-known title, no Disney productions, and at least one film that, while it’s wonderfully executed and a total blast, isn’t what one would call pretty.
  
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• They’ve Found A ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Starring Maggie Smith

  05-10-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dame Maggie’s 1967 portrayal of the playful debutante Beatrice … is thought to be the earliest British television broadcast of the whole play. But the screen version of the famed National Theatre production by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli was assumed a lost treasure missing from the BBC’s archives.”
  
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• A Battle Over The Future Rages At A Historic African-American Theatre Company

  05-10-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the New Freedom Theatre in North Philadelphia begins its 50th anniversary season, its debt has been reduced, it’s paying its actors, its productions are getting great reviews – and three longtime staffers have been abruptly fired, several attendees at a post-forum reception were forcibly removed and arrested, and protestors are demanding the replacement of the executive director.
  
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• So You Wanna Say ‘Email’ And ‘Bingewatch’ In Yiddish?

  05-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two of [the language’s] conservationists have produced the first full-fledged English-to-Yiddish dictionary in 50 years and it is designed to carry Yiddish into the 21st century and just maybe beyond. After all, Yiddish has always had a canny way of defying the pessimists.”
  
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• Preview Frieze Masters 2016

  05-10-2016 15:11 via artnews.com
  The 2016 edition of Frieze Masters, the companion fair to Frieze London (a preview of its offerings is here) focusing on art and objects from the ancient era to the late 20th century, opens Thursday, October 6 and runs through Sunday, October … Read More
  
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• Preview Frieze London 2016

  05-10-2016 15:06 via artnews.com
  The 2016 edition of Frieze London opens Thursday, October 6, with VIP previews beginning today, October 5. The 14th edition of the the fair, which runs until Sunday, October 9, will bring together 160 galleries from 30 countries. Among the … Read More
  
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• This Woman Should Be One Of History’s Most Famous Painters – Why Don’t More People Know About Her (And Her Horrendous Life Story)?

  05-10-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jonathan Jones: “It is not simply that [Artemisia Gentileschi] became a highly successful artist in an age when guilds and academies closed their doors to women. She also did what none of the other – rare – Renaissance and baroque women who made it as artists could manage: she communicated a powerful personal vision. Her paintings are self-evidently autobiographical. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art.”
  
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• Morning Links: Esperanto Edition

  05-10-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Museum Roles, Middle East

  05-10-2016 14:54
  SML are interested in talking to candidates who are either based in, or would consider a move to Qatar. We are working with a range of different museums in the region and have the following vacancies. 
  Curators for Central Islamic Lands, Central Asia, Turkey and Iran
  Senior Exhibition Designers 
  Senior Collections RegistrarsIf you would like more information on any of these searches, please email [email protected] 
  
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