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• ‘Southern Routes’ at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach

  23-05-2017 23:50 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Hackers Hit Hollywood In A Wave Of Cyber-Attacks

  23-05-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hackers are “seizing the content and instead of just uploading it, they’re contacting the studios and asking for a ransom. That is a pretty recent phenomenon,” said Dean Marks, who heads the Motion Picture Assn. of America’s content protection division.
  
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• New York’s CRG Gallery to Close After 25 Years

  23-05-2017 23:26 via artnews.com
  After 25 years in business, New York’s CRG Gallery will close this summer. A statement emailed today by the gallery’s owners—Carla Chammas, Richard Desroche, and Glenn McMillan—did not disclose details about the final show or what day the gallery would finally … Read More
  
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• Preview the ArteBA 2017 Fair in Buenos Aires

  23-05-2017 23:20 via artnews.com
  The 26th edition of ArteBA opens to the public in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, May 24. The fair will bring together more than 91 galleries from 20 countries to the Argentine capital.The fair is divided into seven categories, with numerous … Read More
  
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• A Machine Just Beat The World's Best Player At The World's Most Complicated Board Game

  23-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The human contender, a 19-year-old Chinese national named Ke Jie, and the computer are only a third of the way through their three-game match this week. And the contest does little to prove that software can mollify an angry co-worker, write a decent poem, raise a well-adjusted child or perform any number of distinctly human tasks. But the victory by software called AlphaGo showed yet another way that computers could be developed to perform better than humans in highly complex tasks, and it off
  
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• Renoir’s restored home becomes a museum

  23-05-2017 23:00
  
  A museum dedicated to Pierre-Auguste Renoir will open on 3 June in the French painters family home in Essoyes, 120 miles southeast of Paris, following a major restoration project.
  Renoir bought the house in 1896, six years after marrying his mistress and model Aline Charigot, who was born in the village nestled among champagne vineyards on a tributary of the Seine. Chronic rheumatism forced his move a decade later to Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Riviera coast where he built a villa (now also a Renoir
  
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• Oliver Beer and Andrew Hale get some good vibrations at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

  23-05-2017 23:00
  
  It was a case of good vibrations on Monday night (22 May) at a special dinner hosted by Thaddaeus Ropac to celebrate Oliver Beers current pair of shows at Mr Rs grand new London gallery and also at Birminghams Ikon Gallery. The artist treated 20 guestsincluding the Ikon Gallery director Jonathan Watkins, the Ikon and Tate patron Alia Al Senussi, and the also-iconic Bianca Jaggerto a highly exclusive performance. In Resonant Project, classically trained singers planted in four corners of the mai
  
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• A haunting look at the Élysée Palace

  23-05-2017 23:00
  The film lyse (2016) by Laurent Grasso is an engrossing exploration of the Salon Dor (or Golden Room) in lyse Palace in Paris, the gilded office of the president of the French Republic. Grasso is the first artist to be given authorisation to film the space, which is shown in the film with an original score by Nicolas Godin (one-half of the electronica duo Air). The classical and haunting work premiered at the Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong last year and made its US debut at the Sean
  
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• A beacon of digitised art: Pharos consortium builds massive digital database

  23-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Frick Collection in New York has spearheaded a major initiative to digitise its collections and those of 13 other international institutions, including the Courtauld Institute in London, the Getty Institute in Los Angeles and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Called the Pharos Art Research Consortium, the platform quietly launched last autumn and currently houses 25 million publicly available and searchable images, along with related historical documentation (some of which was previously u
  
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• CEO, Stamford Symphony Orchestra

  23-05-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The CEO reports directly to the Board of Directors and is responsible for managing the daily activities and fulfilling the orchestra’s stated mission. He/she will oversee a staff of seven (some part time and/or remote), and will be responsible for a budget of ~$1.5MM. The CEO has principal responsibility for fund raising and development, including interacting with HNW individuals and Foundations, grant writing, securing government and corporate sponsorship, while also ensuring the active i
  
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• Why TV Revivals Are Everywhere Now

  23-05-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It has become glaringly obvious that mainstream TV is awash in reboots, remakes and revivals. The reasons for this trend are many and complex. It’s not that everybody in the TV racket has run out of ideas. There is a lot of new and original TV being made. One reason is simply business – in a time of so much TV, a familiar title and concept will get more attention than an entirely new story."
  
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• What Words Mean (And Our Attempts To Make Them Mean More)

  23-05-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We writers have often spent time—much of it in the late twentieth century—questioning the ability of words to reflect facts, and the existence of objective facts themselves. There are those who have, whether with glee or with shame, observed a sort of relationship between those postmodern exercises and Trump’s post-truth, post-language ways. I think this reflects a basic misunderstanding, or perhaps a willing conflation of intentions. When writers and academics question the li
  
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• The Mesmerizing Effect Of Haruki Murakami On Readers

  23-05-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At this late stage — Murakami is 68 — critical reception has ceased to matter to Murakami’s international audience. In Japan his books are greeted with Harry Potter–like rabidity, and in the U.S. initial print runs are in the hundreds of thousands. Cribbing a remark John Irving once made to him in an interview, Murakami has compared his readers to heroin addicts, and that may be one reason why he’s consistently delivered an ever-purer-grade product. A Nobel Prize h
  
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• The Enduring Allure Of Utopian Visions

  23-05-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Utopian visions are powerful precisely because, being nowhere, they aren’t constrained by present reality but rather point the way to a desirable future. “Utopia’s ‘nowhereness’ incites the search for it. Utopia describes a state of impossible perfection which nevertheless is in some genuine sense not beyond the reach of humanity. It is here if not now.”
  
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• How Pop-Up Productions Are Making A Whole New Audience For Opera

  23-05-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All these venues have a huge cult following. People might want to take their partner for a beer and a bit of opera, or look for a boutique experience, or just a fun night out. It’s entertainment: we want people to have a good time. In this modern age of people crafting their own experience, it will be different for everyone who goes to it.”
  
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• Colm Tóibín Explains How, And Why, He Rewrote The Oresteia

  23-05-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For any student of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, no event was isolated. Each murder or set of murders seemed to have been inspired by a previous one, each atrocity appeared to be in retaliation for something that had occurred the week before."
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for This Year’s Prospect New Orleans Triennial

  23-05-2017 19:57 via artnews.com
  Ahead of its opening this fall, Prospect New Orleans has revealed the artist list for its fourth edition. Titled “Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp” and curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, the triennial—scheduled to open November 18 and run through … Read More
  
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• How To Keep A Choreographer Alive? The Dancers

  23-05-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Merce Cunningham might be gone, but his work lives through his dancers. "It’s hard to overstate the brilliance of the dancers — Dylan Crossman, Silas Riener, Jamie Scott, Melissa Toogood — who catapult Cunningham’s spirit into the present more than any tangible artifact possibly can. Their movement lives on a precipice, reads like a succession of narrow escapes: almost collapsing, almost colliding. Yet it springs from an unshakeable foundation, from knowing the rules deep
  
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• Art Is Not #Content: Why Techbros Should Stop Trying To Improve TV And Film

  23-05-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jason Bailey works over some of the bad ideas that Silicon Valley types have been coming up with to mess up "hack" the viewing experience.
  
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• Menil Collection’s Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement Goes to Reem Fadda

  23-05-2017 18:33 via artnews.com
  The Menil Collection announced today that Reem Fadda has won the Houston museum’s Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. As part of the award, which is given biennially to mid-career curators, Fadda will get a $20,000 stipend. She will also … Read More
  
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• Executive Director, Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadelphia, PA

  23-05-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pennsylvania Ballet is requesting applications for the position of Executive Director. Under the leadership of Artistic Director, Angel Corella the company has risen to a new level of artistic excellence and increased attendance. The ED reports to the Board and works in partnership with the Artistic Director.
  About Pennsylvania Ballet:
  Founded in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger with the encouragement of George Balanchine, Pennsylvania Ballet was established as a professional dance company to bring th
  
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• Theatre, Race, And The Albee Estate - Whose Wishes Should Rule?

  23-05-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  News broke last week that Edward Albee's estate had denied permission for the casting of a black actor as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, reigniting yet again the debates on non-traditional casting. Alexis Soloski looks at the good-faith issues in the debate: "Part of the difficulty has to do with whether we perceive theater as a collaborative form in which a play is made new each time a director and actors put it on, or whether plays exist as blueprints for a single ideal staging that
  
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• Foundation for Contemporary Arts to Establish New Grant Via Roy Lichtenstein Gift

  23-05-2017 17:48 via artnews.com
  The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a New York-based provider of support grants to artists since the beginning of a 1963 initiative led by John Cage and Jasper Johns, will give out a new annual Roy Lichtenstein Award seeded by a … Read More
  
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• If "Truth" Doesn't Exist Anymore, Why Is Everyone Talking About What's True?

  23-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Post-truth” was coined in 1992 to describe the Iran-Contra scandal and the Gulf War but the popularity of the expression has rocketed more recently, leading to its being chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as the 2016 “word of the year”. The prefix “post”, Oxford explains, means “belonging to a time in which the specified concept has become unimportant or irrelevant”. And yet everywhere the intelligentsia and the tech industry are loudly worrying about
  
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• Agnes Gund At 79: Thoughts On Today's Art World

  23-05-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I think the philanthropy will go up in that more people will see artists as part of a fabric of solving problems, or of addressing a problem. Before this interview, you asked me about what I was doing selling a painting [Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece], and it was because I’m really interested in getting money through that method that can be used for solving problems through art. I think that now artists are really going to come to the fore when it comes to political and social causes.
  
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• When 'Twin Peaks' Became A Series Of Japanese Coffee Commercials

  23-05-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For reasons that evaded Japanese film critics at the time, the 1990s TV show about a murder in a small American town was a huge hit in Japan, even after it was cancelled in 1991. ... To build on that success - and make some extra cash - co-creator Lynch and some of the core cast reprised their roles in four commercials for Coca-Cola's Japanese canned coffee brand Georgia Coffee in 1993. ... The ads were set in Twin Peaks and told the story of a Japanese man who was searching for his missing wif
  
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• Jeremy Deller's arsy anti-Tory poster

  23-05-2017 16:55
  
  The mischief-maker behind a series of cheeky anti-Tory posters popping up across London in Peckham, Soho and Kentish Town has been revealed. The Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller is behind the hoardings which declare Strong and stable my arse, a reference to Theresa May, the Conservative party leader, who has parroted the strong and stable mantra as part of the UK election campaign. The posters, which were mounted by the FlyingLeaps organisation, are particularly timely as Mays leadership is und
  
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• Do We Now Have A Successor To The Great Alan Sokal/Social Text Hoax? (Not Entirely)

  23-05-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Late last week, two (male) academics revealed that they had written a bogus gender-studies paper titled "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" and gotten it published in a social sciences journal. An Alan Sokal caper for the 21st century? Not necessarily. Digg explains what's going on here.
  
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• With the Banned: The Art World Should Mean the Whole World

  23-05-2017 16:32 via artnews.com
  For most of my life, no one really seemed to care that I am Syrian. Early on, whenever I was singled out as an Arab, it was usually by people who didn’t know much about what that might mean. As … Read More
  
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• 24 Frames review – a mesmeric glimpse into Abbas Kiarostami's mysterious mind

  23-05-2017 16:19
  
  The Iranian director has produced a posthumous marvel with this bizarre, experimental ghost-film that even puts his hated cinema seats to decent useAbbas Kiarostami last came to Cannes competition in 2012 with Like Someone in Love, a head-scratching tease of a film, bowing out with a crash ending that left the audience hanging. At the time, the Iranian director was unrepentant; he said that cinema seats made an audience lazy and that question marks were “part of the punctuation of life&rdq
  
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• The Beatles' 'A Day In The Life' - An Exegesis

  23-05-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The song has so much happening that when I casually listen I feel the accumulated effect, but attempting to really figure out what's going on, I fear may take the fun out of it." Nevertheless, Nicholas Dawidoff has a go at it, because it is, as he writes, "my idea of a perfect song. It is the epitome of The Beatles' master building, of fitting stone upon stone, each section troweled together with such ingenuity and care that upon completion the whole thing feels seamless, a structure not built
  
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• Ringling Bros. Circus Wasn't Just A Show, It Was A Major Logistical Feat

  23-05-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As one crew member says, "It's the largest theater performance in human history on the longest passenger train in human history." Camila Domonoske reports.
  
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• Be a Somebody: ‘My Perfect Body’ at the Warhol Museum Examined the Artist’s Preoccupation with the Physical

  23-05-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  In 1997, “The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion” opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Curated by Mark Francis and Margery King, it traced Warhol’s fascination with glamour and its effects from his early years as a fashion illustrator … Read More
  
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• New York Gets Its First Museum Devoted To Contemporary Islamic Art

  23-05-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art opened earlier this month in Soho; "[it] has a gallery space and bookstore, and it aspires to organize quarterly exhibitions, travelling shows, artist residencies, and publications." Vivek Gupta has a first look.
  
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• Gallery TPW Names Brian Sholis Executive Director

  23-05-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  Brian Sholis is the new executive director of Gallery TPW, the nonprofit space started in 1980 by the Toronto Photographers Workshop. Sholis takes the place of Gary Hall, who founded the gallery and served as its director until announcing his … Read More
  
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• NEH Chairman Resigns

  23-05-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "William D. Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will be stepping down effective Tuesday, the endowment announced, ending a three-year tenure. Mr. Adams cited 'personal reasons,' as well as the Trump administration's decision to appoint a new liaison to the endowment."
  
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• Morning Links: Craigslist Swindler Edition

  23-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• A Google Artificial Intelligence Team Is Coming Up With Weird And Wonderful New Musical Instrument Combinations

  23-05-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Jesse Engel is playing an instrument that's somewhere between a clavichord and a Hammond organ - 18th-century classical crossed with 20th-century rhythm and blues. Then he drags a marker across his laptop screen. Suddenly, the instrument is somewhere else between a clavichord and a Hammond. ..Then he drags the marker back and forth as quickly as he can, careening though all the sounds between these two very different instruments." Cade Metz checks out this new - what is it, exactly? - called NS
  
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• The Harpsichordist Who Survived Auschwitz, Bubonic Plague, And Communism

  23-05-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  By the time World War II ended and Zuzana Růžičková had recovered her health, her hands were in such terrible shape that her teacher cried when she saw them. She went on to have a successful concert career, including frequent visits to the West, and became the first person ever to record Bach's complete works for harpsichord. Now she's 90 and no longer performing, but still active - and if you're playing for her in a lesson and she gets bored, she'll pick up a novel.
  
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• Mass MoCA Is Using Its Big, New Expansion For Big, New, Long-Term Projects

  23-05-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Building 6, is a three-story, 130,000 sq. ft. structure now outfitted with long-term shows and installations by five artists. They include a 15-year installation by Jenny Holzer, whose art will be projected on the building and surrounding landscape, and a 25-year James Turrell retrospective with nine of the artist's light works."
  
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• Ratmansky To Reconstruct Petipa's Original Version Of 'Harlequinade'

  23-05-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One of the 21st century's greatest choreographers is taking another drink from the fount of classical ballet: Alexei Ratmansky plans to create a new Harlequinade next year for American Ballet Theater, a reconstruction of Marius Petipa's ballet Les Millions d'Arlequin."
  
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• Obie Awards Spread The Love Among (Almost) All The Tonys' Best Play Nominees

  23-05-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of the four nominees for the Tony Award for best new play, three had Off-Broadway runs, and each of them was honored by the Obie judges.
  
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• Dina Merrill, 93, Actress, Heiress, Philanthropist

  23-05-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[She was] an actress whose aristocratic poise and willowy good looks earned her many film and TV roles as well-bred society women - parts that reflected her own life as a scion of two of America's richest families."
  
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• How the Royal Academy came close to selling its greatest treasure: Michelangelo's Taddei Tondo

  23-05-2017 12:39
  
  In the late 1970s the Royal Academy considered selling off its Michelangelo Taddei Tondo, which was then valued at 6mwell over twice what any work of art had ever fetched at auction. The record was held by Velzquezs Portrait of Juan de Pareja (around 1650), which had been bought by New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2.3m in 1971. The academy valued its entire collection in 1977 for a total of 7.5m. The Michelangelo was then worth 5m, and its other 56 sculptures a total of just under 70,00
  
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• Pissarro painting in Gurlitt trove returned to heir of Max Heilbronn

  23-05-2017 12:16
  
  A 1902 painting of the Seine by Camille Pissarro found in the Salzburg home of the reclusive hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt has been returned to the heir of Max Heilbronn, a Parisian businessman whose art collection was looted by the Nazis in 1942.
   
  La Seine, vue du Pont-Neuf, au fond le Louvre was identified in 2015 as a looted work by researchers appointed by the German government to investigate the provenance of Gurlitts collection. It is the fourth work in the hoard to be returned to the h
  
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• Prince Charles to support exhibitions about his two art-collecting predecessors

  23-05-2017 11:21
  
  The Prince of Wales, the future Charles III, is expected to accept an honorary role overseeing two exhibitions on illustrious royal collectors, Charles I (1600-49) and Charles II (1630-85). Although a decision has not been finalised, he is likely to head a committee of honour. The two shows are being separately organised by the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Collection. A joint launch event was held at Buckingham Palace yesterday (22 May).For scheduling reasons, the Charles II show is
  
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• Opening up: the HD floral erotica of Maisie Cousins – in pictures

  23-05-2017 08:00
  
  Photographer Maisie Cousins brings irreverence and wit to the polite world of floral photography Continue reading...
  
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• Canada's Broadcast Regulator Sends Mixed Messages About Encouraging Canadian Programming

  23-05-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a news release announcing these licence renewals, the CRTC trumpeted its support for “the creation of diverse, compelling and original Canadian content,” but the move to cut spending on programs of national interest seems calculated to do the reverse – and sends an oddly mixed message.
  
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