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• Oxford Dictionary Adds New Words (And Boy Are They Ugly)

  24-02-2017 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Additions including “clicktivism” (a pejorative word for armchair activists on social media), “haterade” (excessive negativity, criticism, or resentment), “otherize” (view or treat – a person or group of people – as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself) and “herd mentality” (the tendency for people’s behaviour or beliefs to conform to those of the group to which they belong) all emerged during the 2016 battle for the
  
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• Claim: The Oscars Are More Important Than Ever This Year

  24-02-2017 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Ever since 2015, when the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag called out the industry’s woeful inclusivity, the show has been transformed—possibly against its will—from a sporadically #woke statuette dispensary to something bigger. The entire show is now political: The nominees, the winners, and the things they say (or don’t say) on stage. And at time when everyone’s mad as hell, and deservedly so, this year’s Oscars offer a rare chance for everybody to mak
  
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• Toronto International Film Festival Downsizes

  24-02-2017 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Toronto International Film Festival is reducing the overall number of films it will screen for this year's edition by 20 per cent and getting rid of two programs."
  
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• Boston Museum Directors Pen Letter Defending NEA and NEH

  24-02-2017 22:17 via artnews.com
  Following the publication earlier this week of an op-ed by Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas P. Campbell in the New York Times, several Boston museum directors have co-signed a letter about President Trump’s reported plans to propose a budget defunding the National Endowment for … Read More
  
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• Channel Surfing: Channel One Unites Underground Cultures in L.A.’s Chinatown

  24-02-2017 22:07 via artnews.com
  This coming weekend the annual L.A. Art Book Fair will take place at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo District. Also this weekend in Los Angeles is Channel One, which is going down over two days … Read More
  
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• All the Art Fit to Show (And None of It Fake!): Flag Foundation Plans a Show About the ‘Times’

  24-02-2017 21:57 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, reporters from the New York Times—along with reporters from CNN and Politico—were barred from a White House press briefing, so we thought there was no better time to bring you the news of the summer exhibition at the Flag … Read More
  
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• All the Art Fit to Show (And None of It Fake!): Flag Art Foundation Plans a Show About the ‘Times’

  24-02-2017 21:57 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, reporters from the New York Times—along with reporters from CNN and Politico—were barred from a White House press briefing, so we thought there was no better time to bring you the news of the summer exhibition at the Flag … Read More
  
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• Mayor Of London: Cutting Arts Education Is False Savings

  24-02-2017 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  "When you speak to successful people in science or tech, they say one of the things that leads to lateral thinking is people doing arts. Not only does it lead to future artists, people in the cultural and creative sectors, but it helps people in different sectors."
  
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• Philosophers Debate How To Respond To The 21st Century's Rise In Violence

  24-02-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  With a nod to Hannah Arendt for her phrase "dark times," the New York Times online column "The Stone" recaps the columns of 11 contributors who have addressed the issue over the past year.
  
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• Lisson Gallery to Open Second New York Space on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea

  24-02-2017 20:23 via artnews.com
  It’s only been nine months since longtime London stalwart Lisson Gallery planted its first flag on U.S. soil, opening a massive space on West 24th Street in Chelsea, cleverly built underneath the High Line. After years of planning, it opened last … Read More
  
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• Arts Council England Will Spend £2.7 Million Implementing "Quality" Standards For Arts

  24-02-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts Council England is "pressing ahead with the system despite serious concerns raised following a pilot project last year to test such a system among 150 NPOs. An independent review of the pilot found that arts organisations wanted a more flexible system that would align with their individual artistic objectives, and ACE’s announcement that the system was going to be rolled out provoked anger and disbelief on social media. Using the system will be mandatory for around 300 of ACE’s
  
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• Shahzia Sikander Goes to Sean Kelly Gallery in New York

  24-02-2017 19:59 via artnews.com
  Shahzia Sikander, the Pakistani-American artist whose works delves into drawing, painting, animation, installation, performance, and video, has signed on to show with Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. She will figure prominently in the gallery’s booth at the Armory Show next … Read More
  
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• Then Is Now: In ‘The History Show,’ Artists Become Collage-Making Magicians

  24-02-2017 19:49 via artnews.com
  At Foxy Production in New York, through February 24 Read More
  
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• Here's Why Standard Measures Of Arts Experiences Are A Bad Idea

  24-02-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Setting aside the insurmountable logistical challenges that will face some of the organisations having to conduct the fieldwork for the Quality Metrics scheme, there are two fatal flaws with the research framework that will render the findings meaningless."
  
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• From the Archives: Donald Judd on Yayoi Kusama’s First New York Solo Show, in 1959

  24-02-2017 19:30 via artnews.com
  With a show of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirror Rooms” having opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. this week, we turn back to the October 1959 issue of ARTnews, in which Donald Judd reviewed Kusama’s first … Read More
  
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• Isabelle Huppert Has Become A Style Icon

  24-02-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the States, until recently she's been familiar mostly to art-cinema fans. But with this year's Hollywood awards season, her cool, ambiguous, insouciant je-ne-sais-quoi has caught the fancy of the fashion press. Says Simon Doonan, "She has what the French used to call chien." Ruth La Perla explores the mystique with the actress herself.
  
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• Interesting? How Meaningless Is That?

  24-02-2017 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Calling something interesting is the height of sloppy thinking. Interesting is not descriptive, not objective, and not even meaningful. Interesting is a kind of linguistic connective tissue."
  
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• Paul Schimmel Is Out at Hauser & Wirth

  24-02-2017 18:26 via artnews.com
  In a brief statement sent to press this afternoon, Hauser & Wirth revealed that Paul Schimmel “will no longer serve as Director, Partner, and Vice President of the gallery.”Schimmel joined the powerhouse gallery as a name partner at its Los Angeles space, Hauser … Read More
  
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• The Art Of Money: The Secret History Of The Images On Currency

  24-02-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jennifer Schuessler talks to Mark Tomasko, a collector who doesn't just study the artwork on old and new bills - he tracks the originals down.
  
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• Confronting the landscape: Doug Aitken’s Mirage in the California desert

  24-02-2017 17:44
  
  Mirage, a new work by the artist Doug Aitken, has popped up in the California desert. The work, a facsimile of a suburban ranch-style house with mirrored surfaces, is part of the exhibition of site-specific works, Desert X, put on by the Palm Springs Art Museum, which opens to the public this weekend (25 February-20 April).I wanted to take the vernacular of a West Coast suburban home and reduce it of any human contact or belongings so it became pure form, Aitken explains. I wanted the form to h
  
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• In the Service of Repair: Kader Attia on Systems of Belief and ‘Reason’s Oxymorons’

  24-02-2017 17:43 via artnews.com
  In 2007, the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia created an arresting installation with sculptures of hundreds of disembodied chadors—large pieces of cloth of the kind wrapped around the heads of many Muslim women—rendered in aluminum foil and splayed across a gallery … Read More
  
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• Robert Hodge at Arts+Leisure, New York

  24-02-2017 17:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Will This Be The First Art Museum On The Moon?

  24-02-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The museum purchased a plot on the moon through a website that issues deeds for property. The territory spreads over 20 acres in area D6, Quadrant Charlie, Lot Number 1/0581-0600, located 001 squares south and 001 squares east of the extreme northwest corner of what the deed terms “the recognized Lunar Chart.”
  
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• Sex Ed Book For Children Causes National Freak-Out In Indonesia

  24-02-2017 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author and publisher of I Dare to Sleep Alone and I Learn to Control Myself insist that the book's purpose is to teach young children about feelings they experience and how to protect themselves from abuse. But images of particular pages got circulated on social media and pushed some national buttons pretty hard.
  
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• Francis Bacon's first portrait of lover George Dyer to go on sale

  24-02-2017 17:01
  
  1963 triptych of muse was painted three months into relationship and was once owned by author Roald DahlFrancis Bacon’s first portrait of George Dyer, the East End petty criminal who became the artist’s lover and muse, is to appear at auction for the first time.The 1963 triptych, once owned by Roald Dahl, was painted three months into a relationship which, a much repeated story goes, began after Bacon caught Dyer attempting to burgle his South Kensington home. Continue reading...
  
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• Myths, dangerous ideas and the best of the Bluecoat – the week in art

  24-02-2017 16:46
  
  The Serpentine hosts John Latham as well as an exhibition responding to his work, while Jim Dine also arrives in London – all in your weekly art dispatchSpeak
  Artists of the 21st century respond to the iconoclastic legacy of the late British conceptual visionary John Latham. Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost, Tania Bruguera and Cally Spooner prove that his dangerous ideas live on. • Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, 2 March-21 May Continue reading...
  
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• Andy Warhol should be made a saint – he makes every day sacred

  24-02-2017 16:42
  
  Andy Warhol died 30 years ago this week, and his Catholic piety, care for the poor and sheer mystical vision mean he remains a transcendent talentThirty years have passed since Andy Warhol’s death. Surely it is high time for him to be made a saint.
  There was something prescient and slightly spooky about the way he said goodbye to life on Earth. This spring, in Milan, his final works are going on display again in an exhibition called Sixty Last Suppers. It recreates the eerie final act of h
  
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• Seeing Noise: How Art And Design Transformed Popular Music

  24-02-2017 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Why then, when we think of music, do we think of Chuck Berry's Gibson 335, Mick Jagger's lips, the cover of Revolver, Michael Jackson's zombies, Blue Note's stark photography, and Madonna's breasts?" As one music historian points out, "It just didn't occur to people that you could correspond the music to some kind of visual image. Someone had to think of that." Scott Timberg looks at the history of what happened after someone did think of it.
  
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• Long Shots: Losing 'For Your Consideration' Nomination Campaigns And The People Who Run Them

  24-02-2017 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cara Buckley, the Times' Carpetbagger: "Chatting with a half-dozen or so Oscar campaigners, the Bagger learned that the reasons long-shot movies and performers are foisted into the awards fray are almost as numerous as the prizes Hollywood doles out to itself each year (though, she dares to say, publicists’ justifying their paychecks surely plays a part)."
  
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• Gathering And Streaming All The Best TV Drama That Isn't In English

  24-02-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The result of 4,000 hours of TV consumption [by the founder] is Walter Presents, an online streaming service that began in Britain in January 2016. And now, when Americans have access to more TV from around the world, [Walter] Iuzzolino is bringing Walter Presents to the United States. The service will debut in March with a catalog of 34 shows, or about 300 hours of TV, and at least two new shows will be added each month."
  
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• Danh Vo takes on US independence with Mexican brands and gruesome tools

  24-02-2017 15:28
  
  The Vietnamese artist Danh Vo has unveiled a major new work, Untitled (2017), at the Aishti Foundation in Beirut that taps into the fraught political climate in the US today. The installation is made of 27 cardboard US flags coated in gold leaf and suspended from the ceiling. Each flag depicts 13 stars, representing the 13 British colonies that declared independence in 1776 leading to the birth of the United States of America. Motifs for Mexican beer brands are emblazoned on the reverse.I was r
  
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• Publisher Shuts Down Magazine In Istanbul Over Cartoon Of Moses

  24-02-2017 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  "After the office of President Erdoğan condemned the cartoon, the publisher of Gırgır closed the magazine and threatened to file criminal complaints against staffers."
  
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• Fearing Another Ghost Ship, Detroit Orders Artists' Complex Vacated Immediately Due To Safety Violations

  24-02-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  "One of the seven buildings of the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, which has become known as a haven for artists and a locale for edgy events and movies, was ordered closed this week." Said the city's director of buildings and safety engineering, "During a recent inspection, the smell of natural gas from the multiple illegal installations was so strong, DTE had to be immediately called to correct the leak."
  
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• Morning Links: Shut-Down Shia LaBeouf Art Project Edition

  24-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Lessons From The NYT Firing Of Charles Isherwood By An Organizational Psychologist

  24-02-2017 14:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  "But first, it's important to highlight the one thing we can't learn: What really got him fired. ... That said, there are plenty of important takeaways from the narrative about Isherwood's firing." Liane Davey offers four of them - and they may seem obvious, but people forget them all the time.
  
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• The Painful Truth About Isamu Noguchi's Design For Martha Graham

  24-02-2017 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Kaufman is not kidding about the "painful" part: as former and current Graham Dance Company performers tell her, dancing on those things hurts.
  
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• Maryland High School Bans Shepard Fairey's 'We The People' Posters For Being 'Anti-Trump' - And Students Get Clever

  24-02-2017 14:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Teachers at Westminster High School in Carroll County, a rural area on the Pennsylvania border, put up the posters as a "show of diversity" - which is precisely their purpose. But after a staff member complained, administrators said that political material couldn't be displayed in classrooms without "showing both sides." Westminster students have an alternative planned (and the school board is meeting with lawyers).
  
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• New Yorker Cartoonist James Stevenson, 87

  24-02-2017 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Mr. Stevenson did not restrict himself to drawing cartoons at the magazine; he was one of the rare people there who wrote and illustrated articles, including Talk of the Town pieces. And, away from The New Yorker, he was the author or illustrator of more than 100 children’s books, as well as novels and an illustrated biography of Frank Modell, a fellow New Yorker cartoonist, who died last year."
  
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• Marlborough Chelsea Rechristened Marlborough Contemporary, Will Program a Second Space in London

  24-02-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  Since its founding in London in 1946, Marlborough Fine Art has gone through spurts of expansion, globalizing its business in a way that very well may have “invented the modern art market,” as The Guardian put it in 2012.Currently, its … Read More
  
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• London Gallery Neo-Nazi Art And Hosts White Supremacist Speakers; Activists Demand That Gallery Be Shut Down

  24-02-2017 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  "This weekend, artists and campaigners will protest calling for the closure of LD50, in Dalston, east London, after accusations the gallery gave a platform to anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and 'alt-right' figures and promoted 'hate speech not free speech'."
  
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• Visa Issues Put South Korean Dance Company's U.S. Tour In Jeopardy

  24-02-2017 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bereishit - a fast-rising young company that fuses modern dance, hip-hop, and martial arts - has already had to cancel its first date on the tour, Feb. 28 in Minneapolis; March performances in Pittsburgh and San Diego are in doubt. (South Korea isn't on anyone's travel-ban list, right?)
  
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• The vital protest art of Jeff Donaldson: 'He stood up for what he believed in'

  24-02-2017 13:30
  
  The first ever solo exhibition in New York for the civil rights-championing artist uncovers a career filled with important and sensitive worksHe was 6ft 6in, loved jazz music and championed African American rights. Gone but not forgotten, the artist Jeff Donaldson is being honored with his first New York solo exhibition at the Kravets Wehby Gallery which opened on 23 February, over a decade after his death. Related: 200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in picturesContinue rea
  
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• Marvin Gaye Chetwynd’s poochy performance hits Rochdale

  24-02-2017 13:07
  
  Works shown at the 2016 Liverpool Biennial are going on the road as part of a special touring initiative, bringing top-notch pieces by artists such as Mark Leckey and Betty Woodman to venues such as the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley and Bury Art Museum. A major biennial piece, Dogsy Ma Bone by the UK artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, proved popular (Chetwynd worked with 78 young people in Liverpool to create the film for children inspired by the 1936 musical A Song A Day an
  
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• Grant Wood’s American Gothic: saved from obscurity by war and parody

  24-02-2017 13:00
  
  Used as a tub-thumping poster for US values in 1941, this homage to a bygone lifestyle became one of the 20th century’s most famous paintingsAmerican Gothic has become a symbol as redolent of the US way of life as Warhol’s Marilyn. It’s also surely one of the most parodied artworks in the world, with everything from The Simple Life to The Simpsons riffing on it. Continue reading...
  
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• 'A city's art biennial can be like watching an army of curatorial truffle pigs'

  24-02-2017 11:42
  
  From Venice to Kathmandu, cities across the world are hopping on the urban bandwagon hosting exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture … have we now reached ‘peak art biennial’?It was like a cultural version of Davos, held in the wintry grandeur of central Oslo. For three days, delegates and guests sat in a conference called Oslo Pilot, holding critical discussions about “relational aesthetics” and the role of public art in society.But really, last November&
  
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• Speak and Bacon To Doig: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  24-02-2017 10:30
  
  The Serpentine celebrates conceptual artist John Latham, while the panache of modern British art is revealed through the likes of Freud and HockneyThe Wall Street crash cast a long shadow on the American imagination. In the 1930s, Walker Evans photographed the faces of poverty and Grant Wood painted images of a spartan American identity. Younger artists were saved from starvation by Roosevelt’s ambitious social programme and widespread commissioning of public art. Jackson Pollock and his g
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.23.17

  24-02-2017 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music and Design
  Why do we talk about “seeing” bands or orchestral groups? How did album jackets and photography of musicians ... become important parts of music’s aura? Is a rock video a betrayal of what music is really about? ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-02-23The stories we weave are incomplete…
  It’s Black History Month again, and though I haven’t blogged about it, it’s been on my mind. I’ve thought of it when I’v
  
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• Artistic Director - Santa Ana, California

  24-02-2017 02:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Founded in 1983, The Wooden Floor, is one of the foremost creative youth development nonprofit organizations in the country. We transform the lives of young people in low-income communities through the power of dance and access to higher education. We use a long-term approach grounded in exploratory dance education coupled with academic tutoring, college and career readiness, and family support services.
  The Wooden Floor seeks our next Artistic Director (AD) who inspires the vitality, spirit, an
  
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• Andy Warhol's Mad Men era: 'He found New York at this incredible moment'

  24-02-2017 01:19
  
  Thirty years after his death, a major new exhibition celebrates Warhol’s early career in the world of advertisingIt’s usually one line in the bio, a footnote in his history, but Andy Warhol’s early career as a commercial illustrator is the subject of a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Adman – Warhol Before Pop.Before he was a pop artist, Warhol was hot stuff on Madison Avenue. Advertising work made him rich enough to embark on a tour of south-east Asi
  
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• Officials Fear 25 Million Books May Be Missing From UK Public Libraries

  24-02-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Librarians are calling for a national audit to reveal the true extent of the problem, with the news coming as the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip) sent an open letter to chancellor Philip Hammond calling on him to increase funding for the sector, to protect it from irreparable decline as part of his strategy for economic growth.
  
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