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• Metropolitan Museum surveys the past year of architecture with daylong event

  07-11-2016 23:48
  
  On Saturday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a daylong series of lectures, conversations and film screenings that examine the past year in architecture and design. The event, In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, includes speakers like Emanuel Christ of the firm Christ and Gantenbein (on their recent expansion of Kunstmuseum Basel), the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (on his anti-Brexit poster campaign) and the architect Elizabeth Diller of Diller, Scofidio and Renfro (on the f
  
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• San Francisco’s John Berggruen Gallery Will Move to New Space in January

  07-11-2016 23:13 via artnews.com
  Today, exactly one year after it announced plans to move to a new space next to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, John Berggruen Gallery revealed new details about its plans for the location, which is right next door to the … Read More
  
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• What’s It Like Being A Juror For The Giller Prize? Think Fight Club

  07-11-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The experience was like being in a war,” says novelist Alison Pick, who served on last year’s jury. “Other than the actual act of writing books, I would say it was the most intense experience of my literary career.”
  
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• Zimbabwe Will Have a Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  07-11-2016 22:42 via artnews.com
  The National Gallery of Zimbabwe announced it will stage a pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. This will mark the sub-Saharan country’s fourth appearance in Venice.In an interview with The Herald, Raphael Chikuwka, chief curator of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, … Read More
  
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• Protests Over Gallery Openings In Los Angeles Escalate – The Anti-Gentrification Side Gets Noisy

  07-11-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The protests come at a time when the city has gained a reputation as a contemporary art capital that some critics say eclipses New York. Over the past decade, the Los Angeles art scene has grown tremendously, with the opening of the popular Broad museum, large flagship spaces created by local galleries, and outposts set up by a string of prominent New York and European dealers, including Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s 100,000-square-foot complex, all of which have helped transform do
  
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• Eva Kot’atkova and Ketty La Rocca at Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

  07-11-2016 22:23 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• The Body, the Whole Body: Feminist Artist Barbara T. Smith at the Box in Los Angeles

  07-11-2016 22:21 via artnews.com
  The first work you saw when you entered Barbara T. Smith’s “Words, Sentences & Signs,” at the Box in downtown Los Angeles (September 17–October 29), acted like a beacon. It’s a small drawing from 1965, done with cray-pas and pencil … Read More
  
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• Will the real Rembrandt please stand up?

  07-11-2016 22:00
  Questions of attribution, scholarship and connoisseurship are at the core of a small Rembrandt exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London (Am I Rembrandt? 8 November-5 March 2017). The show centres on a pair of pictures by the artist, one of which is Self-Portrait, Wearing a Feathered Bonnet (1635), borrowed from the National Trust, which was only fully confirmed as a work by the artist in 2014 after technical study and scholarly research. The exhibition aims to show that attribution is
  
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• Love connection: gallery show pairs works by famous artist couples

  07-11-2016 22:00
  
  When it comes to romantic relationships, one never knows what goes on behind closed doorsbut for artistic couples, hints may be found in their work. Such is the premise behind Artists and Lovers, a pop-up exhibition by the dealer Pilar Ordovas that arrived in New York from London this week (until 7 January 2017). I wanted to show couples, both of whom were artists in their own rightnot one to be the muse, the other to be the artist, says Ordovas. Im really interested in the dynamic where you ha
  
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• Baby curators, apply here

  07-11-2016 22:00
  
  We know that collectors are getting ever younger, so its no surprise that the auction house Artcurial is targeting infant connoisseurs with a workshop for children based on its Old Masters sale (14 November). The auctioneer Matthieu Fournier will give collectors and their children a guided tour of the consigned works in Paris on 12 November, with plenty of activities planned. The young amateurs will learn, for instance, that blind-mans buff already existed in the 18th century, thanks to Jean-Ba
  
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• Art world luminaries raise funds for Open School East to go south

  07-11-2016 22:00
  
  The Royal Academy of Arts ever-versatile Tim Marlow showcased his considerable talents as an auctioneer as he whipped up bids and invented imaginative new lots on the hoof to help raise over 85,000 at last weeks benefit dinner for Open School East (OSE). Though Michael Craig-Martin was seen to blanch when Mr Marlow jokily proposed that he share a sauna with a lucky bidder
  Open School East was founded in 2013 by a visionary group including the Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory and Sam
  
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• Dia’s Fall Gala Brings Out the Benefit-Goers—on a Sunday!—as Wade Guyton Introduces His Mentor Robert Morris

  07-11-2016 21:58 via artnews.com
  A year ago, Dia’s director, Jessica Morgan, scrapped her predecessor’s $60 million plan to link all of the foundation’s Chelsea spaces into one mega-space, opting instead to keep them as separate, adjacent sites for different projects. Well, if you’re keeping the buildings … Read More
  
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• Toronto Art Museum Scanned An Ancient Object That Had Been Defying Understanding For 500 Years. They Found Something Interesting

  07-11-2016 21:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The discoveries relate to much more than technique. In an ever-more virtual world awash in technology and information, at a time when machines are increasingly more capable than humans, the show raises profound questions about ancient objects that, it turns out, can be made by human hands alone – treasures we can see and contemplate and touch, but never completely understand, exactly as their makers intended. That might be a big idea.”
  
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• Claim: The National Book Awards Have Been Corrupted And Demeaned

  07-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When two friends of mine were on recent panels, discord was so intense that each judge picked one finalist, the kind of situation that can produce unpredictable horsetrading and compromise winners. Corruption can also enter in. The year I was a judge, one colleague tried to give the award to a family friend. Another judge supported the writer with whom she shared an agent.”
  
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• So You Idealize Victorian England? The Reality Was Rather More… Smelly Than You Might Have Thought

  07-11-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To the modern sensibility, even the most carefully turned-out Victorian — male or female — reeked. Heavy perfumes covered bodily smells; onion juice was a popular hair tonic; dental hygiene was primitive and certainly not concerned with freshness of breath. Households were poorly ventilated, so various cooking smells clung to fabrics and damp walls.”
  
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• Guy Wildenstein, Hasso Plattner Start Foundation Focused on Art-Historical Research and Technology

  07-11-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  While art dealer Guy Wildenstein awaits a verdict on charges of tax fraud, he is apparently staying busy. News arrived today that he has joined with Hasso Plattner, a tech entrepreneur and arts education philanthropist, to form the Wildenstein Plattner … Read More
  
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• On The Eve Of An Election In A Divided Country, The Story Behind A Fanfare For The Common Man

  07-11-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Copland’s Fanfare is an American anthem. “It was written for the heartland, specifically Cincinnati. But it was also for America. In the end, it was not written for a general or a president, but for the “Common Man,” those“doing all the dirty work” in wartime – in Copland’s words. For those who voted and paid taxes. For those who rationed sugar and gasoline. For a nation united against a common foe. For those who waited for their young men and wome
  
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• David Zwirner Now Reps Yun Hyong-keun in New York

  07-11-2016 19:18 via artnews.com
  David Zwirner announced that the gallery now represents the work of Yun Hyong-keun in New York. Yun, who lived from 1928 to 2007, is best known for abstractions that bring together Korean scholarly painting and various strands of 20th-century abstract art.The gallery … Read More
  
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• Lin Manuel Miranda: How Arts Education Changed (And Defined) My Life

  07-11-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The impact of arts education on my career is complete, total, and it saved my life. I no longer thought of school in semesters; I thought of it as: we do a play in the fall, we do a musical in the winter, and we had a student run theater group called Brick Prison which we would do in the spring. I was a writer with a deadline because I really wanted to get a play into Brick. That was the focus of my creative efforts for as long as I can remember.”
  
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• Animality review – a cacophonous gathering of art's jungle VIPs

  07-11-2016 19:02
  
  Marian Goodman Gallery, London
  A pink octopus, an albino camel, a bronze slug … a menagerie of curious creatures slyly evoke the mysteries of the animal kingdomBird song, or something like it, fills the air. “Art! Art! Aaaartschwager! Beuys. Beuys. Schnaaaabel!” The names of big-time boy artists, screeched and cackled by Louise Lawler in her 1972-81 sound-work Birdcalls, greet visitors to Animality, a funny and thoughtful exhibition about our relationship with the animal kingd
  
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• Exploring Dylan As A Literary Phenomenon

  07-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Accademia has grappled with the literary stylings of Bob Dylan for some time. It may be that Dylan hits a funny sweet spot in academia today: To many professors, he still stands for literary ambition and ’60s rebellion. And for many students — born in the last years of the 20th century — he is so distant from the streets where they live he might as well be John Keats.
  
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• Benefits Of The Arts? A Review Of All The Studies Suggests Something Compelling

  07-11-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our review of the literature addressing these questions yielded a surprising result: the most compelling evidence of the value of the arts revolves around improving the lives of older adults. Better understanding the relationship between the arts and aging may help to identify areas for improvement in future research into wellbeing, as well as opportunities for investing in the quality of life of older individuals.”
  
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• This Fall Simon Rattle Is The Defining Conductor In New York

  07-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And he has lots to say in addition to his performances: “This is not an easy time for classical music here. I do only get asked this on this side of the pond. In Europe, with all the troubles, it’s alive and well and kicking. Orchestras are doing amazing things here as well, but it’s more of a struggle. One of the reasons orchestras in Europe went so gangbusters in education was that they saw that there wasn’t much music education here, and they said, ‘We’re f
  
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• When VHS Tapes Were New, These Two Opened A Video Store. Here’s What It Was Like To Be On The Cutting Edge

  07-11-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Customers were fascinated. “They didn’t ask for a specific movie, just something to play on their VCRs. People weren’t sleeping – they would rent 10 movies at a time, only to bring them back the next day, jonesing for more.”
  
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• Giles Waterfield, the director who modernised Dulwich Picture Gallery, has died

  07-11-2016 16:55
  The art historian, curator and novelist, Giles Waterfield (1949-2016), transformed the Dulwich Picture Gallery, which he led for 17 years from 1979 until 1996. When he arrived there was a staff of five, two resident custodians (one a carpenter) who hadnt spoken to each other for three years, and the only activities were those organised by the Friends. Otherwise nothing happened, no exhibitions, no conservation programme", Waterfield recalled in a typically dry way. The small, historic gallery i
  
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• As the Market Contracts, Sotheby’s Loss Comes to $54.5 M. in Third Quarter, Typically a Slow Period

  07-11-2016 16:35 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith announced in this morning’s quarterly earnings call that the auction house will post a net loss of $54.5 million for the third quarter of this year, a deficit significantly larger than the adjusted net loss of $17.9 million last … Read More
  
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• If You Understand 21st Century London At All, It’s Probably Because Of Zadie Smith

  07-11-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Her books White Teeth, NW, and the new Swing Time are clear-eyed about the state of the city in this century: “diverse, vivid, at times cacophonous, stuffed full of dreams and aspirations, of fear and friction, where the houses of the wealthy abut the estates of the poor and tension simmers beneath the humour.”
  
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• How A Dancer Can Transform Into A Choreographer

  07-11-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Do the usual: Apprentice, try to job-shadow and assist the best people, fly with your own wings – and be prepared for a few problems. “One of the toughest challenges will be getting people to see you in a new light.”
  
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• How Will The U.S. Election Affect The Art Market?

  07-11-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Flagship autumn sales were pushed from early November to late in the month, when whatever has happened is established fact. That’s because auction houses remember all too clearly what happened in the fall of 2000.
  
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• Thousands Of People Mass Outside British Museum To Protest Cultural Services Budget Cuts

  07-11-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since 2010, more than 300 libraries have closed across the UK because they’re “non-essential services.” With even broader cuts, the Tories – say the protesters – threaten more libraries, and museums and galleries too.
  
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• The Sad, Surreal Experience Of Hearing Other Audience Members Laughing During ‘Moonlight’

  07-11-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sometimes the audience and the movie don’t match up, to put it mildly, but that can be extra painful when the not-so-funny scene concerns a revelation of identity.
  
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• Six schemes for lighting up London's bridges shortlisted

  07-11-2016 15:24
  
  Organisers of £20m Illuminated River project taking in 17 bridges in UK capital say it is an unprecedented commissionPlans to light up London’s bridges in what would be one of the biggest public art projects the UK has ever seen have taken a step forward with six schemes shortlisted.The £20m Illuminated River project takes in 17 London bridges over six nautical miles, from the Albert Bridge in the west to Tower Bridge in the east.Continue reading...
  
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• For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ The Blessing And The Curse Of This Election

  07-11-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump is so mimetic that he’s drowned out the actual candidate in our minds, and sure, Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton is a “savage yet sympathetic portrait of political thirst,” but the best SNL moments came on the edges of the election.
  
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• Newly discovered Brueghel to go on show in first UK exhibition on the dynasty of painters

  07-11-2016 15:08
  
  A tipsy scene of peasants dancing at a wedding, previously thought to be a copy but recently attributed to the 17th-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger, will form the centrepiece of the first exhibition in the UK on the Bruegel family of artists. The new discovery brings the Holburne Museums tally of works by the younger Bruegel to threemore than any other institution in the UK.Another recent revelation in the Somerset museums collection, Boy Blowing Bubbles by David Teniers the
  
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• Where, Aside From The Presidential Candidates, Did Hollywood’s Money Go This Election?

  07-11-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Initiatives to legalize pot are quite popular among the, er, show business set.
  
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• Shortlist announced to light up river Thames and 17 London bridges

  07-11-2016 14:59
  
  The Illuminated River initiative, the most ambitious public art project launched in decades in London, is moving forward with the unveiling today (7 November) of design masterplans for the Thames-based initiative from six shortlisted international teams.
  Seventeen bridges, running from Albert Bridge in the west to Tower Bridge in central London, will be lit up under the scheme, as well as parts of the rivers banks. Two of the bridges are yet to be built, the Nine Elms to Pimlico crossing and th
  
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• Morning Links: Tommy Hilfiger Edition

  07-11-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
  Good morning! The U.S. presidential election will be decided tomorrow (hopefully), the polls are tight, and the only thing giving us comfort is that people all across this great nation are finally learning about Marina Abramovic thanks to WikiLeaks and ultra-right-wing conspiracy theories. Below, … Read More
  
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• Remember The Five Disappeared Hong Kong Booksellers? The Action Seems To Be Having Its Desired Effect

  07-11-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shops that sold the political books banned in mainland China have closed; publishers that put the books out have gone out of business; and printers refuse to print the books for the writers and publishers who are left.
  
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• Marina Abramovic: the latest target in the rightwing culture wars

  07-11-2016 14:37
  
  The accusation that the artist indulged in black magic with John Podesta shows some US conservatives are more reactionary than everThe 2016 US election has brought the nation’s rifts to a point of blood-curdling, irreconcilable vitriol surely unseen since the civil war. Amid such mayhem, an accusation that artist Marina Abramović has been schooling senior Democrats in black magic is almost a welcome bit of light relief. Related: Marina Abramović mention in Podesta emails sparks a
  
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• Marina Abramović: the latest target in the rightwing culture wars

  07-11-2016 14:37
  
  The accusation that the artist indulged in black magic with John Podesta shows some US conservatives are more reactionary than everThe 2016 US election has brought the nation’s rifts to a point of blood-curdling, irreconcilable vitriol surely unseen since the civil war. Amid such mayhem, an accusation that artist Marina Abramović has been schooling senior Democrats in black magic is almost a welcome bit of light relief. Related: Marina Abramović mention in Podesta emails sparks a
  
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• Hamburg Has A Thrilling New Concert Hall, But Will It Win Over The Citizens Who Funded It?

  07-11-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a weird, stunning space, but no one yet knows how its acoustics will (or won’t) deliver.
  
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• That Time The Guardian Hosted Haruki Murakami Talking With Seiji Ozawa About Music, Creativity, And Everything

  07-11-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Novelist Murakami says of conductor Ozawa: “We both maintain the same ‘hungry heart’ we possessed in our youth, that persistent feeling that ‘this is not good enough,’ that we must dig deeper, forge farther ahead. This is the major motif of our work and our lives.”
  
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• The Making Of A Countertenor

  07-11-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Costanzo has been in demand for decades – but only to sing very old or very modern roles. That is the curse and blessing of the countertenor.
  
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• The British Government Just Pulled All Of Its Funding From The New, Simon Rattle-Backed Concert Hall

  07-11-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A former culture minister offered more than £5 million, of which more than a fourth has been spent … and now the government has simply decided that the rest has to be returned to them because the proposed Centre for Music “doesn’t offer value for the taxpayer.”
  
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• Innocent Abroad: An American Bookseller Goes To The Frankfurt Book Fair

  07-11-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So this experiment goes well: “I apologize a lot. I try to assure the international book community that not all of America has lost its goddamn mind.”
  
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• A Deep Meditation On What Emma Rice Meant To The Globe

  07-11-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The U.S. and Britain don’t have public investigations of theatres’ artistic direction, though Germany does. Perhaps the Globe’s seemingly peremptory dismissal of recently hired AD Emma Rice over lighting will lead Britain to figure that out a little more clearly – together, before hiring a new artistic director.
  
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• The L.A. Opera Casts A White Man To Play A Pharoah, And Protests Arrive On Schedule

  07-11-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Will L.A. Opera’s claim to colorblind casting – and the need for a very fit countertenor – help calm the troubled waters?
  
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• Remains of Paul Gauguin’s father found off Antarctica

  07-11-2016 12:12
  
  The skeleton of Paul Gauguins father has been found in a very remote site in Chile, near Antarctica. Clovis Gauguin died in 1849 on a journey from France to Peru. The discovery of his bones is reported in a new book by the art historian Caroline Boyle-Turner.Clovis Gauguin fled France for political reasons with his wife Aline and their two young children, Marie and Paul (he was then aged 14 months). They sailed on the French ship Albert, bound for Lima, where Aline had relatives. On 30 October
  
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• Erotic letters reveal Stanley Spencer's colourful and complicated love life

  07-11-2016 08:00
  
  Painter’s longing for woman he divorced to marry gay fellow artist is laid bare in newly released cache of private materialHe was a master of 20th-century British art, famed for the vivid recreations of his Berkshire home. And, according to a newly released cache of love letters, the late Sir Stanley Spencer had a private life as colourful as his paintings.Hundreds of letters and artist’s notes for an unrealised autobiography are to be published for the first time, shedding new light
  
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