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• The Jimmys Are Like Tony Awards For Teens On Broadway

  28-06-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Tony-winning star of 'Dear Evan Hansen' admitted this year that he has been addicted to watching the Jimmys since he was younger than some of the contestants. "The Jimmys take over Broadway’s Minskoff Theater for one sparkly Monday night each June, transforming the set of 'The Lion King' into a showcase for 74 of the nation’s most talented theatrical hopefuls."
  
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• Sotheby’s $79.9 M. Postwar and Contemporary Sale Led by Warhol, Basquiat, Warhol-Basquiat Collaboration

  28-06-2017 23:17 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s notched a solid postwar and contemporary evening sale in London tonight, pulling in £62.4 million ($79.9 million) and managing to sell all but one of the 41 lots on offer, for a sell-through rate of 95 percent.The haul was up 54 percent … Read More
  
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• Michael Bond, The Creator Of Paddington Bear, Has Died At 91

  28-06-2017 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How the books, which have sold millions worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages, got their start: "The story began on Christmas Eve 1956, when he was working as a BBC TV camera operator. On his way home, he stopped by Selfridges department store and spotted a toy bear alone on a shelf. 'It looked rather forlorn,' he told the London newspaper The Sunday Telegraph in 2007. He took the bear home as a stocking stuffer for his wife and soon began writing a story about it. After 10 days
  
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• Warhol's first 'selfie' sells for £6m at 'tight and solid' Sotheby’s sale

  28-06-2017 23:00
  
  If uncertainty hung over the summer season in London after Christies decision to pull its contemporary June sales, Sothebys managed to find its footing with a solid auction last night (28 June). The house took 52.6m (62.4m with fees) against an estimate of 44.3m-60.6m. All but two of the 41 lots sold.The result was up 20% on last Junes sale, which took place just days after the Brexit vote. But a lack of big-ticket works meant this years total was a far cry from the 130m achieved in 2015.&
  
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• Towering triumph: on the scholarly resurrection of Joseph de Levis

  28-06-2017 23:00
  
  It is not often that the study of Renaissance bronzes can be described as intrepid. That, however, is exactly the word that comes to mind as one reads this pioneering and magisterial study by Charles Avery. Consider, for example, his account of the difficulties encountered by anyone wishing to look closely at the bells cast by Joseph de Levis (1552-1611/14) and his family firm in late 16th- and early 17th-century Verona. These, Avery notes, in many cases still hang in the relatively inaccessible
  
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• Tefaf focuses on online market in addendum to annual art market report

  28-06-2017 23:00
  
  The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht today (29 June) released its Art Market Report: Online Focus, a supplement to the annual Art Market Report released in March. Her findings mostly confirm the most noticeable trends, namely that large auctioneers who have embraced their digital platformsHeritage, Christies, and Sothebysclaim the largest share of an estimated $3.1b market (which the Hiscox Online Art Sales Report puts it at $3.75b; Art Basels The Art Market 2017 report, $4.9b)
  
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• Serpentine Summer Party goes with a swing and a chill

  28-06-2017 23:00
  
  The first Serpentine Summer Party under the new CEO Yana Peel found her partnering up with Chanel; getting Karl Lagerfeld to design the bashs brick of an invitation; and pulling in a guest list that spanned Claudia Schiffer, Brooklyn Beckham and Dame Shirley Bassey. Also in attendance was the London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who appeared infinitely more at ease with the art crowd than the newly appointed culture minister John Glen, Member of Parliament for Salisbury in Wiltshire, who was spor
  
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• Dutch engraver who influenced Rembrandt shines in Munich

  28-06-2017 23:00
  Eighty works from the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich come together in the exhibition Lucas van Leyden: Master of Printmaking (29 June-24 September). The show spans the Leiden-born Renaissance artists entire oeuvre, from his earliest period around 1506 to his last known engraving from around 1530. The show aims to recreate his development as an engraver, and also focuses on his narrative talent, says the curator, Susanne Wagini. One work, Large Ecce Homo (1510), reveals him a
  
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• Contemporary art ushers in visitors to Masterpiece

  28-06-2017 23:00
  
  Visitors to the seventh edition of Masterpiece, which opens to the public today (29 June-5 July), are welcomed by a very different sight this year: an imposing green neon and mirror installation by the Chilean artist Ivn Navarro. Stationed at the entrance, Impenetrable Room (2016) is a reminder of the fairs sometimes overlooked contemporary offerings.
   
  Its a bit out of left field for us, says Philip Hewat-Jaboor, the chairman of the fair, which is known for its mix of disciplines, with 15
  
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• Chelsea Manning, Artist, Will Show Collaborative Self-Portraits at New York Gallery

  28-06-2017 23:00 via artnews.com
  While Chelsea Manning was in prison for sharing classified material with WikiLeaks, she sent cheek swabs and clippings of hair to artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, who produced 3-D-printed portraits based on the DNA in those samples. On August 2, 30 those works will go on view … Read More
  
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• Abstraction in reverse: how Latin American Modernists changed how we see

  28-06-2017 23:00
  
  The art historian Alexander Alberros new book, Abstraction in Reverse, which has just been published by the University of Chicago Press, offers a fresh perspective on how Latin American artists have altered our perceptions of Modern art. The central argument of the book is that abstract artists like Julio Le Parc, Toms Maldonado and Jess Rafael Soto, among others, made works that granted viewers a fuller stake in interpretation, which was no longer a matter of passive reception.These artists "g
  
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• Pace Gallery to Show ‘Theaters of Memory’ Paintings by Jean Dubuffet in London

  28-06-2017 22:50 via artnews.com
  This fall, Pace Gallery in London will be given over to a historical show of Jean Dubuffet’s “Théâtres de Mémoire,” a series of monumental paintings made by the late French painter between 1975 and 1978. Among the artist’s largest works—running to sizes as … Read More
  
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• Do Neurons Dance?

  28-06-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Choreographer Jody Oberfelder believes they do - and that thinking, that thoughts, come from the body. In a new work, she tried to connect the science and the choreography - to the detriment of dance, at first. "So I thought, why not get the audience to try to feel their brains, without telling them how? To set up situations where they’re interacting not only with their minds intellectually but passing that down through the body, being in a physical space with other bodies, making connecti
  
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• Remembering The Forgotten Brontë (Poor Old Branwell!)

  28-06-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Branwell's legacy has been shaped by sensation, such as the story that he once set his own bed on fire, or the suggestion that he died standing up. His erratic, out-of-control behaviour has contributed to his legacy as the family's black sheep. ... Despite being a passionate poet, writer and artist, he failed to hold down conventional jobs, and repeatedly succumbed to vice. Finally, his world fell apart after the end of an affair with a married woman, Lydia Gisborne, which accelerated his depen
  
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• Midori Joins The Faculty At The Curtis Institute

  28-06-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She's moving from the University of Southern California to the East Coast, and "she cited Curtis’ approach as one appeal of the job – the 'commitment Curtis has to nurturing younger musicians to prepare them not just to play the instrument, but to also become responsible citizens.'"
  
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• Erin Christovale Appointed Assistant Curator at Hammer Museum

  28-06-2017 21:17 via artnews.com
  Ahead of the 2018 Made in L.A. biennial, which she is co-curating with Anne Ellegood, Erin Christovale has been named an assistant curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.Christovale is known for running, with Amir George, Black Radical Imagination, … Read More
  
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• Avery Singer Wins $22,000 Prix Jean-François Prat

  28-06-2017 21:12 via artnews.com
  Avery Singer has won this year’s Prix Jean-François Prat, which is given annually to a contemporary artist in tribute to its namesake French collector, who died in 2011. Singer will now take home €20,000, or about $22,700.Over the past few … Read More
  
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• ‘Margherita Stein: Rebel With a Cause’ at Magazzino, Cold Spring, New York

  28-06-2017 21:09 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Dancers, Here Are The Things Your Class/Rehearsal Pianist Wishes You Knew

  28-06-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christian Matijas-Mecca: "I train my students to know the ins and outs of dance classes of varying styles. In return, we sometimes wish our collaborative partners understood more about what we bring to the studio." For instance, "Don't use the piano as an ad hoc desk. I teach my students appropriate studio etiquette. They will not wear shoes in your studio, talk while you are teaching or leave their belongings lying about. Show them the same courtesy."
  
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• ‘An Unstoppable Force’: Brian Belott on His Children’s Art Show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

  28-06-2017 20:33 via artnews.com
  Over the course of three decades, beginning in the late 1940s, the Bay Area psychologist and nursery school director Rhoda Kellogg collected more than one million pieces of art made by children living all around the world. Last winter, the … Read More
  
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• Medieval Scholars Believed In Parallel Universes

  28-06-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But weirdly, they only got there after the Catholic Church banned many Aristotelian ideas as heretical. "Among the ideas that Tempier condemned was a principle of Aristotelian thought that held that the 'first cause' (or, as medieval scholars would have said, God) could not have made more than one world."
  
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• Nicholas Serota’s stranglehold on contemporary art | Letter

  28-06-2017 20:08
  
  Valerie Barden says the former Tate director’s promotion of ‘cutting edge’ art has resulted in a stranglehold of such art in most public galleriesCharlotte Higgins (How Nicholas Serota changed Britain, 22 June) wonders if Nicholas Serota’s revolution is in danger of being reversed. One can only hope so. Serota’s single-minded promotion of so-called “cutting edge” art at Tate Modern has resulted in a stranglehold of such art in most galleries in the publi
  
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• A Kind Of Language Linguists Thought Would Be Impossible (And You'd Agree), But It Exists

  28-06-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One core property of human languages is known as duality of patterning: meaningful linguistic units (such as words) break down into smaller meaningless units (sounds), so that the words sap, pass, and asp involve different combinations of the same sounds, even though their meanings are completely unrelated. ...Try inventing a lexicon of tens of thousands of distinct noises, all of which are easily distinguished, and you will probably find yourself wishing you could simply re-use a few snippets
  
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• The Unsung Creator Of Modern Musical Choreography: Bob Fosse

  28-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What gives the dancing in modern musicals such athleticism and power? A style that can be traced back to Fosse. "The roots of Fosse’s signature style were actually in burlesque. As a young teenager ...he had a tap act that he performed in burlesque houses. He translated that style to the screen in ways that directly foreshadow modern musicals and music videos."
  
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• Never-Before-Published Hannah Arendt On Poverty, Misery, And The Great Revolutions Of History

  28-06-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This manuscript, never before published, is marked 'A Lecture' and dated '1966-67.' Where and when it was delivered, or if it was delivered, is not known. The manuscript seems too long for a single lecture. ... The where and when of the lecture have not been confirmed, though extant records have been thoroughly searched."
  
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• The 45-Year-Old Bay Area Theatre That Developed 'Angels In America' Is Folding

  28-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wow, no thanks, California tech companies, not to mention voters: "Eureka’s dissolution after many decades is a result of several factors, including rising overhead and the high costs of maintaining its aging facility. Additionally, following the defeat of Ballot Measure S in November 2016, San Francisco Grants for the Arts (funded by the city’s hotel taxes) declared that it could no longer offer grants to performing arts facility providers."
  
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• What Is A Gaffer And Why Is That Boy "Best"? A Guide To All The Credits At The End Of A Movie

  28-06-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Have you ever sat through the end credits waiting for the post-credit teaser and wondered what exactly do all those people do? We'll break down the positions in that sea of credits and explain who's who on a major film production." (video)
  
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• Swedish Actor Michael Nyqvist, Who Starred In 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,' Has Died At 56

  28-06-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The actor, who also had roles in action movies like 'John Wick' and 'Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol,' had lung cancer. "Nyqvist got his start training at the Malmö Theatre Academy, one of Sweden’s leading theaters and where Ingmar Bergman would frequently stage productions in the 1950s" - and one of his big screen breaks came in a BET series about Nelson Mandela.
  
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• Vimeo Gives Up On The Subscription Video Idea

  28-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The video streamer, which is owned by Barry Diller's IAC, announced last November that it planned to spend "tens of millions" to build out a competitor of Netflix, Hulu and the newly launched YouTube Red. ... The company already has a subscription business in which it sells professional tools to its more than 750,000 creators" - and it will refocus on that business instead, according to the announcement.
  
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• Can You Make An Opera Out Of The MOVE Bombing? Bill T. Jones And Friends Are Giving It A Try

  28-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1985, Philadelphia police attempting to evict and arrest members of the militant activist group MOVE dropped a bomb on the group's headquarters, causing a fire that burned down an entire city block. Jones, composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are creating a new work about the disaster and its aftermath for Opera Philadelphia's inaugural O festival this September. David Patrick Stearns talks to Jones and Joseph about how the piece is coming together.
  
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• Dreamers Awake review – a sublime anatomy of female surrealism

  28-06-2017 16:23
  
  White Cube Bermondsey, London
  From chair sex to ponytail ties, this captivating survey of work by more than 50 artists – from Louise Bourgeois to Lee Miller and Sarah Lucas – is brimming with visual puns, lewd gags, absurdity and horrorThe word surrealism was coined by the poet Apollinaire a century ago, and refers above all to an art of juxtaposition, the concatenation of shockingly disparate elements, shorn of context, with the slippery, succinct logic of a bad dream. Little wonder
  
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• What Happens When You Bring Street Dance Onto The Stage?

  28-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dance Magazine asked Rennie Harris and two of his students, Nicole Klaymoon and d. Sabela grimes, "Over the years, how has increased acceptance and visibility on concert-dance stages affected hip hop and its artists? And how has hip hop influenced concert dance?" Here's the conversation the three gave in response.
  
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• Art Stars: A Map of the Curatorial Firmament

  28-06-2017 15:46 via artnews.com
  Today art festivals—biennials, triennials, and so forth—are so pervasive, it feels as if a major one is happening each week. But even in the late 1990s, when biennial fever had yet to peak, there was malaise. “Talk about other planets!” … Read More
  
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• Dallas Museum Of Art's Mexican Modernism Show Is Having Huge Success In Latino Audience Engagement

  28-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There was skepticism when Dallas Museum of Art director Agustín Arteaga proposed bringing a major exhibit of Mexican masterpieces here from Paris and allowing families who were not regular museum visitors to see it for free." But the show has been a big hit, and more than half of its visitors, many of them Latino, are newcomers to the DMA. Says docentJosé Villanueva, "I haven't seen this many brown people in the museum before."
  
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• Chicago To Spend $1 Million For Public Art For Each Of City's 50 Wards

  28-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The plan is part of the "Year of Public Art" initiative declared by Mayor Rahm Emanuel for 2017.
  
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• Martha Argerich Is Canceling Concerts Due To 'Serious Health Issues'

  28-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just what those issues are hasn't been stated, but that's the phrase used in the announcement that the 76-year-old pianist won't be making a scheduled appearance in Athens next month. Last week she cancelled what was to have been her Australian debut, saying in a statement, "I am unable to travel and play in this moment, feel very weak, exhausted and having physical pains that worry me."
  
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• Morning Links: Lego Edition

  28-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Jazz Pianist And Composer Geri Allen Dead At 60

  28-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Allen] defied classification while steadfastly affirming her roots in the hard-bop tradition of her native Detroit ... In addition to her varied and commanding work as a leader [of her own ensemble], Allen made her mark as a venturesome improviser on notable albums with the saxophonist-composers Ornette Coleman, Oliver Lake, Steve Coleman and Charles Lloyd; drummer Ralph Peterson, Jr.; bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian; and many others."
  
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• Ousted Director Of Shakespeare's Globe To Start Her Own New Theatre Company

  28-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Emma Rice is to form a new theatre company when she steps down as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe next year. The company, called Wise Children, will be based in the South West of England and will work with venues through a series of residencies to create 'innovative ensemble theatre' that will then be toured nationally and abroad."
  
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• Another Artists' Space Shut Down By Fire, This Time In Philadelphia

  28-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A stairwell fire early Tuesday has closed Vox Populi, the artists' space at 319 N. 11th St., displacing the artists and businesses in the entire building for an undetermined time, forcing tenants to find new locations." Among the events affected: the Philadelphia Bad Theater Fest, scheduled for this weekend.
  
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• MoMA Expansion Gets $50 Million Gift From Billionaire Collector/Hedge Funder

  28-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The collector and hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen and his wife, Alexandra Cohen, are the latest big-money contributors to the Museum of Modern Art's capital campaign for new exhibition space. The institution announced today that the couple's foundation has given $50 million in unrestricted funds."
  
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• 'Lack Of Professional Attitude And Practices' Causing Serious 'Talent Drain' From British Theatre: Study

  28-06-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A damning review of workforce practices in commercial and not-for-profit theatre has painted a picture of a sector being undermined by low pay, a damaging culture of overwork, poor treatment of freelance workers and a lack of long-term strategic thinking."
  
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• England Cuts Funding For Four Large Organisations, Adds Smaller Groups Both In And Beyond London

  28-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House and the Southbank Centre will all lose 3% of their [Arts Council England] national portfolio organisation grant throughout the next funding period, which runs from 2018 to 2022. ... [The cuts] will allow funding for other London-based companies to remain the same and for smaller companies to be brought into the portfolio. ... An additional £170 million will be spent outside London across the next four years, and mo
  
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• Arts Council England unveils first major grant programme since Nicholas Serota took over as chairman

  28-06-2017 13:28
  
  Arts Council England has announced its first major grant programme since the former Tate director Nicholas Serota took over as chairman in February. Funding is being shifted away from the largest London arts organisations towards the regions.The councils National Portfolio grants, which support local arts organisations, will total 409m a year from 2018 to 2022 (83% of this comes from government grant-in-aid and 17% from the National Lottery). A further 213m a year will go for other grants to ar
  
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• 'Always grasp the opportunity': confronting ageism creatively

  28-06-2017 04:37
  
  More Australians are rejecting the negativity around ageing and defining for themselves what getting older meansEileen Kramer is reinventing ageing. The 102-year-old dancer and artist is working on a new ballet and plans to perform it in November – with a walking stick, if necessary. “I aim to be walking properly because there is nothing wrong with me except my balance,” she says. If she needs her cane, she will ask her dancing partner to use one too. “We can do a cane da
  
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• Carrot soup, chicken enchiladas and brownies: cooking with Georgia O'Keeffe

  28-06-2017 00:35
  
  A new cookbook of the artist’s personal recipes offers insight into her approach to healthy eating and the meals she shared with Frieda Kahlo Georgia O’Keeffe, health food devotee: the pioneer of modernism’s favourite recipes
  “According to Carol Merrill, one of artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s caretakers, being at her table ‘was to be immersed in beauty with few distractions and an unspoken invitation to completely focus on the matter at hand. The fragrance, th
  
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