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LOT 25: Henriette Browne, Frolics, circa 1880. Estimate $10,000-20,000
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, September 15, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will conduct its third Fine Art + Furniture & Decorative Arts sale of 2021 with a variety of material by influential artists and makers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The auction will include paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, glass, lighting, furniture, metalwork, jewelry, and more. Among the items being offered are important, historic examples by key figures from the Midwest and beyond. Logistical details for the sale and bidding instructions are provided below the highlights. French artist Henriette Brownes richly detailed oil on canvas portrait, Frolics, circa 1880 (estimate $10,000-20,000), presents a playful bathing scene. Danish-French artist Camille Pissarros etching likewise shows a trio of bathers, Les Trois Baigneuses, 1895 ($1,000-2,000). Another 19th century French artist in the auction is Louis Victor Watelin, with a bucolic painting, May Morn ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Creations by French fashion designer Christian Dior are on display at the Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, on September 7, 2021. Christian Dior's hit exhibition tracing the history of the legendary French fashion house opens in New York this week with an American twist after record-breaking attendances in Paris and London. "Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams" premieres at the Brooklyn Museum on Friday and features more than 300 haute couture dresses as well as photos, videos and sketches from the museum's collection. Angela Weiss / AFP.
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| Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, acquires Souls Grown Deep Foundation works | | Flashpoint US statue of Confederate general removed in Richmond | | San Francisco gets its own Institute of Contemporary Art |
Thornton Dial, Soul Train, 2004, mixed media. Purchased through the Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe 2015 Fund; 2021.11.3 © 2021 Estate of Thornton Dial/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Object photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
HANOVER, NH.- This year, the Hood Museum of Art made a major acquisition of ten works of art from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation that dramatically expands the story of American art it tells by including several African American artists from the southern United States. These works will transform the Dartmouth College collection and allow new meanings to emerge from their connections to its current holdings. These groupings offer fresh insight into the world of art but also into the rich diversity of people sharing this planet and the many ways they have chosen to express their ideas and beliefs creatively. The acquisition encompasses paintings by Ronald Lockett, Mary T. Smith, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young; sculpture by Lonnie B. Holley and Bessie Harvey; a quilt by Louisiana Bendolph (from the renowned community of quilters in Gees Bend, Alabama); and both paintings and a sculpture by Thornton Dial. John R. Stomberg, the Virginia Ric ... More | |
The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue on September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. Bob Brown - Pool/Getty Images/AFP.
by Bastien Inzaurralde with Chris Lefkow
RICHMOND (AFP).- A towering statue of a Confederate general that became a focal point of protests for racial justice was removed Wednesday in Richmond, the Virginia city that served as the capital of the pro-slavery South during the American Civil War. The bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the bloody 1861-65 conflict, was lifted off its 40-foot (12-meter) granite pedestal as hundreds of onlookers cheered under tight security. "Hey, hey, goodbye," the crowd chanted as the 21-foot-tall statue was slowly lowered to the ground on straps to be carted away in pieces on a flatbed truck. A municipal worker on a cherry picker waved his arms and pumped his fist in the air as the statue was pried off its pedestal, which has been daubed with painted slogans such as "Black Lives Matter." Muhammad Abdul-Rahman, a 56-year-old community organizer, was ... More | |
Ali Gass, formerly the head of the ICA San Jose and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, has raised $2.5 million to start a new institution called the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. Ulysses Ortega via The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Several cities from Philadelphia to Los Angeles have museums called Institutes of Contemporary Art, or ICAs, which are known for being experimental and nimble and for not having permanent collections. Now San Francisco is getting one of its own. Ali Gass, formerly the head of the ICA San Jose and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, has raised $2.5 million to start a new institution called the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. It will be located in the Dogpatch area of the city, which is already a cultural destination with many studios and galleries. The plan is to support and showcase emerging Bay Area artists who are ready for national and international attention, Gass said, as well as exhibit projects by more established artists, with a roughly 50-50 split. Gass, who will serve as director, explained that ... More |
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| Martos Gallery opens "The Collective: Chosen Family" | | Avery Singer presents two new series of large-scale paintings at Hauser & Wirth | | Alberto Vilar, arts patron convicted of fraud, dies at 80 |
Jared Owens, Panopticon. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Collective comprises seven artists who center criminal justice reform in their practices, aligned by their shared experiences of incarceration and their commitment to supporting artists who have overcome similar backgrounds. The Collective began with Owens commandeering a small recreation room at FCI Fairton Correctional Facility as an art studio where he met fellow artists Jesse Krimes and Gilberto Rivera. A bond was quickly formed, ideas were traded, and a pact was made to continue their art careers upon coming home. Since 2014 the collective has grown to now include Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter aka Isis Tha Saviour, Tameca Cole, Russell Craig, and James Yaya Hough, who had formed their own networks during their respective incarcerations, and find themselves now committed to changing how society views formerly incarcerated artists, a theme that permeates all of their work. Through the artists collaborations, they have founded networks of support, such as the Righ ... More | |
Avery Singer, Sculptor, 2021 (detail). Acrylic on canvas stretched over wood panel, 241.9 x 216.5 x 5.3 cm / 95 1/4 x 85 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin © Avery Singer. Photo: Lance Brewer.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 9 September, groundbreaking American artist Avery Singer will present two new series of large-scale paintings in her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth. Occupying both the second and fifth floors of the gallerys 22nd Street space in New York City, the exhibition invites us to consider form as a state of encounter an encounter that does not take place with a singular object, reference, or context, but as a conflation of narratives, spaces, histories, and ideas. Singers new paintings explore themes 19th-century European painting motifs, romantic notions of intoxication, stereotypes surrounding the bohemian artist, and icons of contemporary digital culture that amalgamate past and present, clarity and ambiguity, and propose an escape from our quotidian reality. Shifting seamlessly between digital and analog processes, Singers new work ... More | |
Alberto Vilar on Sept. 26, 2000, at his seat, A101, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Alberto W. Vilar, a money manager with a love of opera who used his wealth to become a conspicuous arts patron but fell out of favor when he reneged on his pledges and eventually went to prison for defrauding clients, died Saturday at his home in the New York City borough of Queens. He was 80. His sister and only immediate survivor, Carole Vilar Williams, said the cause was a heart attack. Vilar built his fortune once estimated at nearly $1 billion by Forbes magazine through Amerindo Investment Advisors, a firm he co-founded that focused on biotechnology and technology stocks. He used those riches to embark on a run of largesse in the 1990s and early 2000s, donating or pledging to donate more than $200 million to arts organizations. For his $25 million pledge to the Metropolitan Operas endowment in 1998, Vilars name ... More |
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| Unseen Photo Fair 2021: Spectacular edition will be held from September 17-19 | | Phillips to host 'Reframing Beauty: A Private Seattle Collection' | | Exhibition at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada explores computer-generated imagery practices |
Peter Hauser, (b. 1981), Seele I, 2021. Analogue C-Print photogram on Kodak Endura photographic paper, 176 x 123 cm. Unique.
AMSTERDAM.- During 3 days, on 17th, 18thand 19th September, Unseen will host a spectacular edition of the photography fair. With the presence of 65 galleries in the main fair, 54 publishers in the book market and 14 participants showing large scale installations in the new section Unbound, the photography fair will showcase a broad and dynamic spectrum of new photography. Roderick van der Lee, the Director of the fair: "Despite the difficulties of the times, such a large number of international participants will be present with great enthusiasm and exceptional presentations. For the most part coming from throughout Europe, but we are also pleased to welcome galleries from further afield, such as from Tokyo and New York. The fact that this will be such a strong and spectacular edition is particularly something the participants themselves may be proud of. I am thankful for their resolve, vision and the dedication they ha ... More | |
Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II), 1981. David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II), 1981. Estimate: $40,000 - 60,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced Reframing Beauty: A Private Seattle Collection, a single-owner auction taking place on 7 October at the companys new headquarters at 432 Park Avenue in New York. Featuring 65 lots of exceptional provenance, the collection is comprised of contemporary photographs dating from 1964 through 2006, and features artists who transformed conventional definitions of beauty. The sale includes important works by Peter Hujar, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Roni Horn, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others. Vanessa Hallett, Phillips Deputy Chairwoman and Worldwide Head of Photographs said, Today we see an unprecedented overlapping of the worlds of Photography and Contemporary Art, with the contributions of 20th century photographers being showcased alongside their contemporaries in other media. Reframing Beauty showcases this expanded understanding of photography. In addition to their art-historical importance, many i ... More | |
Sturm&Drang, A collaboration between Fondazione Prada and gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich. Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan. Photo: AFN.
MILAN.- The exhibition project Sturm&Drang, a collaboration between Fondazione Prada and gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, will take place at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada from September 9, 2021 to January 23, 2022. Curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini (Armature Globale), Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen (gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich Department of Architecture), Sturm&Drang explores computer-generated imagery (CGI) practices, experiences, and environments. CGI is the creation of still or animated visual content with imaging software. This exhibition does not focus on the final productthe advanced digital imageor artworks adopting these techniques, it rather investigates the production methods behind this powerful image economy. Sturm&Drang is a conglomeration of four environmentsquotes of both existing or imaginary spacesthat usually host the making of or the fruition of the CGI programming in contexts such as ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together a fresh mix of emerging voices from the international scene | | David Diao's first solo exhibition in the UK opens at Gazelli Art House | | Megan Rooney's first solo exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac opens in London |
Leigh Ruple, The Chess Game, 2021 (detail). Oil on canvas, 66 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- PAGE (NYC) heads uptown with Petzel, presenting a collaboration between the New York galleries. The exhibition debuts new works by Magnus Andersen, Ravi Jackson, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Dani Leder, Dana Lok, Leigh Ruple, Lauren Satlowski, Agnes Scherer, and Katja Seib. On view at Petzels Upper East side location, this presentation marks the first time Petzel has invited a New York gallery to organize an exhibition in one of its spaces. Curated by Lucas Page, owner of PAGE (NYC), the show brings together a fresh mix of emerging voices from the international scene. Systematic approaches find poetic harmonies in the depiction of refined structures and figurative subject matter. Experiments in pictorial processes devise an extrasensory world with a range of surprising results and unexpected combinations. This group has ... More | |
David Diao, El Lissitzky / Herman Miller, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 114 cm. 59 7/8 x 44 7/8 in.
LONDON.- Gazelli Art House is presenting Traces of Modernism, the first solo exhibition of the artist in the UK. Selected works represent a range of Diaos artistic exploration since the 1980s to the current time. Born in 1943 in Chengdu, the artist immigrated to America through Hong Kong, and spent most of his life and career in New York. Diao is well known for interweaving modernist formalism with avant-garde iconography, identity politics, and his personal histories. The exhibition features historical works including Untitled (red black and blue) and Mining your Ps and Qs that demonstrate a drastic turn in Diaos artistic career: previously working solely with abstract painting responding to the Modernist canon, the artist started to experiment with silk screened images, vinyl lettering, hand drawn marker, and painted words, reflecting on his complicated heritage as a Chinese immigrant in America. A selection of his ... More | |
Megan Rooney by Eva Herzog. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery | London Paris Salzburg Seoul.
LONDON.- BONES ROOTS FRUITS is Megan Rooney's first solo exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac, spanning the entirety of the buildings two floors. An enigmatic storyteller, Rooney works across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance and language to develop intense narratives in her striking signature style. Comprising entirely new works, the exhibition presents 10 large-scale paintings and one monumental canvas of 7 metres alongside 34 works on paper from Old Baggy Root, an ongoing series of surreal portraits exploring figuration and the complex range of emotions experienced in moments of observation. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated essay, The locust tree in bloom (2021), by writer Emily LaBarge. The exhibition follows recent solo museum and institutional shows, including at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (202021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2020); SALTS, Basel ... More |
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Solo presentation of works by artist Gracie DeVito opens at The New York Studio School
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Studio School opened its first solo presentation of works by Los Angeles-based artist Gracie DeVito. Gracie DeVito, Recent Paintings, includes new paintings from 2020 and 2021. The exhibition will be on show until October 10, 2021. DeVitos recent works recall a sort of painterliness that has historically been founded on two key precepts: the understanding of painting as a form of primary process thinking and the practice of transcription. With regards to the former notion, Donald Kuspit writes about the paintings of Leon Kossoffan important source of inspiration for DeVitos workthat they inflame our subconscious. In addition to being a proponent of the sort of gestalt-free painting alluded to by Kuspit here, Kossoff was also an avid practitioner of transcription. Neither copying nor reinterpretation, the practice ... More
Halloween's Jamie Lee Curtis: 'I hate horror movies'
VENICE (AFP).- She has been starring in the "Halloween" movies for 43 years, but Jamie Lee Curtis said Wednesday that the secret to her success is that she despises horror films. "I scare easily," Curtis said at the Venice Film Festival, where the latest instalment, "Halloween Kills", premiered. "I am an untrained actor. I've never been to acting class," she told the press conference. "But I hate these movies. I loathe them. I do not like to be frightened. So it's a natural talent -- that genuine emotional connection to being afraid. You're watching that happen on screen." Curtis, 62, -- daughter of Hollywood legends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh -- was also receiving a life-time achievement award in Venice for her long career, which includes hits "A Fish Called Wanda" and "True Lies". She said the role of Laurie Strode, which she has portrayed since the first ... More
Galerie Karsten Greve opens an exhibition featuring a selection of fifteen canvases by Qiu Shihua
PARIS.- After the success of the 2015 and 2018 exhibitions, Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting a new personal exhibition by the Chinese painter Qiu Shihua at its Parisian gallery, featuring a selection of fifteen canvases painted between 2000 and 2019 and on display for the first time. Nature has always been at the heart of the artists work. Always untitled, Qiu Shihuas work has no intention either to be strictly representative, or truly figurative he paints landscapes from allegorical impressions of the world. At first glance, the canvases appear to be empty the possibility of discovering the ethereal landscapes then becomes a matter of intuition and trust. The paintings change depending on the light and the distance of viewers, details appear and disappear in a flowing ballet of brush strokes. As when viewing impressionist paintings, looking too closely prevents from seeing anything. During his fir ... More
Carnegie Museum of Art opens fall exhibition 'Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves'
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves, on view through January 9, 2022. Bringing together the work of Elizabeth Murray (19402007) and Jessi Reaves (b. 1986), this traveling exhibition highlights how both artistspracticing generations aparthave critically engaged with the decorative, the domestic, and the bodily. Taking the form of two surveys and a two-person exhibition, Wild Life travels to Pittsburgh from Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) where it debuted in January 2021. Organized by Rebecca Matalon, CAMH Curator, the show presents Murrays paintings from the 1960s to the 2000s, chronicling the artists exploration of the domestic sphere through surrealism, abstraction, and compositional experimentation, alongside a selection of Reavess sculptural assemblages from ... More
Exhibition of eight new paintings by Amie Cunat opens at Dinner Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Dinner Gallery, formerly VICTORI + MO, is presenting Petal Signals, an exhibition of eight new paintings by Amie Cunat. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view from September 8th through October 23rd with an opening reception on Thursday, September 9th from 6-8pm. Both horrific and comedic, earthly and transcendent, Cunats new paintings present biomorphic forms that are undeniably familiar yet foreign and reject singular associations, a departure from her past exhibition with the gallery that recreated a Shaker meeting house. She shifts the frame of reference to pose the question: can we know something weve never seen before? Each work calls to mind a sense of recognition, toying with the instinct to assign familiar meaning while demanding additional perspectives. Channeling tenets ... More
BC McMullen Museum opens first major US exhibition on Cuban modernist painter Mariano RodrÃguez
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.- The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College is presenting the first major United States exhibition on Cuban modernist painter Mariano RodrÃguez (191290). This retrospective features more than 140 oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings, including works from the artists estatewhich has provided unprecedented access to rarely, if ever, seen works and archivesas well as from leading museums and private collections. Mariano: Variations on a Theme | Variaciones sobre un tema will be on display through December 5, 2021, in the McMullen Museums Daley Family and Monan Galleries. Marianos allegiance to the Cuban Revolution limited the display of his artworks in America principally to those created before 1959, when he was a member of the Cuban avant-garde. This exhibition widely expands the artists known corpus. ... More
BP Portrait Award winner Richard Twose mines his incredible life story in new show
LONDON.- Richard Twose, one of the UKs most acclaimed portrait painters, goes deep into the events of his extraordinary life in a new collection at the Catto Gallery in September. The show, Past Imperfect, sees the artist re-examine his wild biography a journey that embraces evangelical Christianity, animal rights activism, revolutionary communism, multiple arrests, playing in punk bands and dark family secrets. As such, it is his most personal collection to date. At present, Twose is best known as a portrait painter. In 2014, he won second prize at the BP Portrait Award for his painting of Jean Woods. Three years later, his portrait of Ken Loach was also selected for the award. Today, his paintings feature in private collections all over the world. Collectors include Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw. So the forthcoming show represents a departure. ... More
Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross exhibits works by artist and Civil Rights activist Elizabeth Catlett
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross is presenting an exhibition of artwork by the acclaimed African American artist Elizabeth Catlett during the fall semester. The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis will be on view through Dec. 15, 2021. An accompanying lecture by Rebecca Van Diver, professor of art history at Vanderbilt University, will take place during opening events on Sept. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in Holy Cross' Rehm Library. A reception will follow in the gallery. Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), a pioneering sculptor and printmaker, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Exploring themes around injustice, motherhood and the Black-American experience, Catletts work utilized a sleek, modern aesthetic to promote social equity and confront ... More
Brooklyn community mourns Michael K. Williams: 'He never stayed away'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the voice of Michael K. Williams crept from a large sound system hooked to the back of a truck, the bustle of an East Flatbush street slowed down a bit. People stopped to pay their respects and to retrieve a white balloon that would later be released during a vigil for Williams, held right in front of the Brooklyn housing complex where the actor grew up. He went to Hollywood, but never forgot where he came from, said Anthony Herbert, a community advocate who hosted the vigil at the intersection of Foster and New York avenues. He was a brother of our community. Williams, who was found dead Monday at his home in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, was famous for his portrayal of Omar Little, the shotgun-wielding gangster in the HBO epic drama The Wire. But that character wouldnt be possible ... More
Igor Oistrakh, Soviet-era violinist (and a son of one), dies at 90
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Igor Oistrakh, a noted violinist who was part of a violin-playing family that included his father, David, one of the 20th centurys finest exponents of the instrument, died Aug. 14 in Moscow. He was 90. His son, violinist Valery Oistrakh, said the causes were pneumonia and heart problems. Though much of his career coincided with the Cold War, Oistrakh was well-known in New York and elsewhere in the West, since the Soviet Union sent its best musicians on tour. He made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in February 1962 performing with Symphony of the Air under Alfred Wallenstein. Harold C. Schonberg, reviewing the concert in The New York Times, noted that few could measure up to David Oistrakh and pronounced Igor a good violinist, though far from a great one. But by December 1963, Oistrakh ... More
A pandemic, then a hurricane, brings New Orleans musicians 'to their knees'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Hurricane Ida swept through New Orleans late last month, it took a piece of history with it. The Karnofsky Tailor Shop and Residence, a decrepit red brick building that had served as a kind of second home for Louis Armstrong during his boyhood in the early 1900s, was reduced to rubble. At the Little Gem Saloon next door, where some of the first jazz gigs were played, a three-story-tall mural paying homage to pioneering cornetist Buddy Bolden was also ruined. Most of the citys active music venues fared far better, suffering minor roof and water damage. But the storm was only the latest in a series of blows to the people and places that make up the jazz scene, in a city that stakes its identity on live music. Weve been without work for over 18 months now, Big Sam Williams, a trombonist and bandleader, ... More
Frank conversations about making a living in dance
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On the first episode of his new podcast Are You for Sale?, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez divulges the salary he paid himself during what he calls one of the high points of his career. The big reveal? Forty-eight thousand dollars a year. I thought, OK, Ive really gotten somewhere! he says, recalling his optimism at the time. This is kind of major. In New York City where Gutierrez, 50, has been performing and choreographing since the mid-1990s $48,000 is far from a cushy annual income. That it felt like lot, a financial breakthrough, speaks to just how precarious a career in dance can be, even one supported by the many awards and grants Gutierrez has received. That precariousness why it exists, particularly in the United States, and how artists might move beyond it is one concern of Are ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. In this image: A visitor looks at the piece of art "Wall Drawings" by American artist Sol LeWitt at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004.
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