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<title> Beautiful Baumeister </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ An abstract painting by an artist Hitler labeled a ''degenerate'' sells at auction for over half a million dollars. ]]></description>
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<title> Gilding The Water Lily </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ One of Monet's iconic aquatic landscapes sells for over $80 million. ]]></description>
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<title> Game On </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Over in Toronto, a pristine Victorian game box beat the odds and scored an impressive $8,800 at auction. ]]></description>
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<title>Jul 25: Guided Tours - Introduction to Museum Collections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from the collections. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Guided Tours - Art of Asia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:00 AM - 12:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Guided Tours - Art of Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11:30 AM - 12:30 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. 
 Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of Europe Language: English(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Guided Tours - Three Masterpieces in Thirty Minutes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[12:00 PM - 12:30 PMHalf-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature an in-depth look at three masterpieces. 

Free with Museum admission. Location: Sharf Visitor CenterClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Guided Tours - Art of the Americas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[1:30 PM - 2:30 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Guided Tours - Art of Egypt and the Classical World</title>
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<description><![CDATA[2:00 PM - 3:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from this collection. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Related Collection: Art of the Ancient Language: English(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<description><![CDATA[3:00 PM - 4:00 PM One-hour tours, given by Museum-trained guides, feature masterpieces from the collections. Location: Sharf Visitor Center Tickets: Free with Museum admission.Click here for details Language: English(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Film - Tell No One</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6:00 PM Tell No One (Ne le dis &agrave; personne) by Guillaume Canet (2006, 125 min.). A French box-office phenomenon, Guillaume Canet’s take on Harlen Coben’s best-selling novel is an energetic blend of Hollywood thrills and French cinematic style. Fran&ccedil;ois Cluzet plays a widower who comes under renewed suspicion when his wife’s murder case is re-opened and he receives a mysterious e-mail containing a clue only she would know. What follows is a somewhat convoluted take on the Hitchcockian "wronged man" format, but one that keeps the thrill-o-meter on high and the suspension of disbelief even more so, largely due to its highly credible cast. Description adapted from BBC.

Official website for Tell No One Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: Members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10Click here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Film - Could This Be Love?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[8:20 PM Could This Be Love? (Je crois que je l’aime) by Pierre Jolivet (2007, 90 min.). "An irresistible romantic comedy that’s genuinely romantic and undeniably comic, Could This Be Love? is a fast-paced, Paris-set confection without an ounce of narrative fat. The tale of a captain of industry who falls for an artist sparkles from start to finish thanks to a smart premise, terrific performances, and writer-director Pierre Jolivet’s knack for depicting believable human behavior in unanticipated situations" (Lisa Nesselson, Variety). Divorced magnate Lucas runs a large and successful tech company. Fashionable, forthright Elsa is installing a ceramic mosaic in the lobby of his French HQ. Lucas becomes smitten with Elsa but is not without his suspicions--his last girlfriend turned out to be a spy for a business rival. So Lucas assigns Roland, his company’s security chief, to put Elsa under surveillance. "The subsequent shenanigans are enormous fun to watch...Full of twists and turns but never overstuffed or strained, the script is as intricate as it is entertaining" (Variety). Location: Remis Auditorium Tickets: Members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10Click here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - RSVP: Jim Lambie</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11/10/2007 - 12/31/2008  Scottish artist Jim Lambie is the third artist to participate in the series RSVPmfa, in which the Museum invites artists to consider the extraordinary collections, architecture, and grounds that comprise the Museum of Fine Arts as a background for the installation of their work. 

Lambie transforms ordinary objects—vinyl tape, turntables, speakers, doors, mirrors, clothing, chairs—that he finds on the street or buys in secondhand and hardware stores into vibrant sculptures and site-specific installations. Lambie champions sensory pleasure over intellectual response, approaching his work with a simplicity and straightforwardness of form and material. "I'm not an information artist, I'm not like a schoolteacher, I'm just working with materials," says Lambie, who experiments with space and form in a way that breaks with traditional notions of elegance, deploying humble materials to create objects and installations that challenge the high-tech, high-brow aesthetics common to much of contemporary art and design. 

Lambie redefines the shapes and relationships of the materials he uses without veering too far away from simply letting them be what they are. Like music, which serves as an artistic model for him, Lambie’s art fills its surroundings and transforms the environment: "You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you." In Jim Lambie’s hands, ordinary objects are transformed into powerful, enigmatic, and compelling environments where the edges disappear and the space he makes is for you. 

This exhibition made possible by The Contemporaries, whose generous donations directly support the Museum's Department of Contemporary Art.

Read the Boston Globe article about the installation. Location: Cohen GalleriaClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Sumo:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Japan&#x27;s Big Sport</title>
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<description><![CDATA[11/10/2007 - 8/3/2008  

From its legendary prehistoric beginnings until the present day, sumô wrestling has dominated the world of traditional Japanese sport. Like Kabuki actors and noted courtesans, wrestlers were idols of the urban popular culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and so appeared frequently in woodblock prints. “Sumo, Japan’s Big Sport” features not only portraits of famous wrestlers and scenes of their greatest bouts, but also views of wrestlers as celebrities in everyday life, legends and Kabuki plays featuring wrestlers as heroes, and fantasies in which animals or supernatural beings enjoy wrestling just as humans do. Location: First-floor Japanese GalleryClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Zhang Daqian:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Painter, Collector, Forger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[12/15/2007 - 9/14/2008  Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) casts a long shadow over the modern history of Chinese painting. As a painter, he was known for his singular ability to mix traditional techniques and styles with contemporary ideas and currents. As a collector, he accumulated important examples from all genres of Chinese painting and left behind copious seals and inscriptions. As a forger, Zhang so mastered the art of deception that his fakes were purchased unwittingly by nearly every major art museum in the United States—the MFA included. Indeed, the first question asked by experts when a work is considered suspect is: “Could this be by Zhang Daqian?” 

This exhibition focuses on all three facets of Zhang’s career and features a rich selection of works from the MFA alongside loans from private collections. Of particular interest is a master forgery acquired by the Museum in 1957 as an authentic work of the tenth century. The painting, which was allegedly a landscape by the Five Dynasties period master Guan Tong, is one of Zhang’s most ambitious forgeries and serves to illustrate both his skill and his audacity. Location: Carpenter GalleryClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - The Brilliance of Bird-and-Flower&#x3C;br&#x3E;Painting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[1/26/2008 - 8/10/2008  

Throughout Asia birds and flowers have been cherished for their beauty, but they have carried rich symbolic messages as well. For example, the lotus—a delicate bloom born of the muck of a pond—was adopted early in India as a Buddhist metaphor for the beauty of the soul that can emerge from the mire of human existence. In China, Korea, and Japan, mandarin ducks have been emblems of marital fidelity, while hawks serve as symbols of military prowess. Paintings of native Japanese birds and flowers have been appreciated primarily for their evocation of the seasons and the traditional poetic emotions associated with them. 

This exhibition, drawn from the Museum's collections, explores the distinctive visual language of bird-and-flower painting that has facilitated dialogue across Asia between man and nature. 
 Location: Second-Floor Japanese GalleriesClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Kufic Korans:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Calligraphy in the World of Islam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[2/2/2008 - 11/2/2008  

"Kufic Korans," on display in the Islamic Corridor, features a broad range of visual cultures, from Egypt to Iran, united by an appreciation for beautiful Arabic text. Calligraphy serves many purposes in Islamic art, from conveying meaning to acting as decoration, and its importance began in the early days of Islam, when Muslims believe that God first revealed the Koran to Muhammad. The Koran is the holy text and foundation of Islam, and skilled calligraphers throughout centuries have strived to make the text itself beautiful. 

All the objects in this exhibition feature an angular style of Arabic calligraphy dubbed Kufic, considered to have originated from Kufa, a city in modern Iraq. Today the term “Kufic” is used by calligraphers and scholars alike to describe a wide range of angular Arabic script. Early Kufic Koran manuscripts, enhanced by gold and silver illumination, were commissioned by powerful Muslim rulers and large mosques. This angular and horizontal style also lent itself well to architectural inscriptions on monuments. Later, the angular style of script would be revived by calligraphers and artisans looking back to the austerity of the past and exploring Kufic’s potential to become more ornamental and abstract. Even in the 21st century, international corporations and local businesses in the Islamic world often utilize Kufic for their designs.

 Location: Islamic CorridorClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Rockwell and the Shinjin:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox</title>
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<description><![CDATA[4/8/2008 - 9/7/2008  In honor of the second Red Sox World Series Championship in four seasons and opening day in Japan and Boston, the MFA proudly presents "Rockwell and the Shinjin: Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox." The exhibition, on view in the Upper Rotunda, features The Rookie by beloved American artist Norman Rockwell. This popular painting, briefly on loan to the Museum, depicts the Red Sox locker room in 1957. The image appeared that year on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 

Two of the Red Sox 2007 rookies, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima, hail from Japan, where the season opened this year. These shinjin ("rookie" in their native language) were among the first Japanese players to join the team. To complement the painting and to pay tribute to the history of baseball in Japan and the United States, a special selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century works on paper and memorabilia from both countries are on display. Among the highlights are early twentieth-century Japanese postcards, a drawing by Boston artist William Morris Hunt, and items from the 2004 and 2007 World Series Championships.


Above: Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room), 1957. Oil on canvas. Anonymous loan. © 1957 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved. www.curtispublishing.com. Image appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, March 2, 1957.
Norman Rockwell rights of publicity licensed by Norman Rockwell Licensing, Niles, IL. Location: Upper RotundaClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Antonio L&#xF3;pez Garc&#xED;a</title>
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<description><![CDATA[4/13/2008 - 7/27/2008   
It is impossible to describe Antonio López García simply as a painter in the “realist” school. His masterful paintings of the prosaic, familiar places of his world and of the family and friends comprising it reveal an unusual sensitivity to his subject. Through uncompromising study of his subjects, he has imbued the commonplace with a haunting and extraordinary character, seen in his exceptional depiction of light—at once brilliant and subdued, ethereal and fleeting, and palpable. His unrelenting examination and depiction of his subject means that he sometimes spends years to finish a single canvas. This penetrating approach, as well as his exceptional skill, has singled out López García as one of Spain’s most revered artists.

This exhibition of approximately sixty paintings, drawings, and sculpture is presented as a complement to the exhibition “El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.” López García is in the lineage of artists to be examined in this historical exhibition, artists who introduced naturalism into Spanish art, from an attention to detail and the depiction of space in court portraiture, to the flourishing of still life, to the humanizing of saints. 

See Boston Globe photos of the sculpture installation at the Huntington Entrance on April 1. Location: Foster and Rabb GalleriesClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - El Greco to Vel&#xE1;zquez:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Art during the Reign of Philip III</title>
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<description><![CDATA[4/20/2008 - 7/27/2008  
"A vivid, often passionate picture of Spain at the dawn of the 17th century...Putting these two geniuses in context with their contemporaries charts a fascinating progression." —Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe

View a slideshow of works from "El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III."

This groundbreaking exhibition examines a fascinating period (1598–1621) bracketed by the two giants of Spanish painting, El Greco and Velázquez. Discover the masterpieces of Philip III’s court and the artists who flourished during his reign.

To separate themselves from Philip II’s approach to governing, Philip III and his court "issued in a new style of grandeur" (in the words of their contemporary Gil González d’Avila), where gala celebrations, elaborate religious fiestas, building campaigns, and picture collecting were the order of the day. Much of the art produced at and for the court reflected this style, replacing the austere art created for Philip II with a more naturalistic and emotionally expressive art that became the hallmark of Philip III’s reign.

"El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III" features paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts—including a partial recreation of the camarín of the Duke of Lerma, the most important non-royal collector in Europe at the time and the favorite of Philip III—organized around themes such as portraiture, religion and the court, and the birth of still life.

Don't miss the contemporary Spanish works in "Antonio López García," on view in the Foster and Rabb Galleries Apr 13–Jul 27, 2008.

Enhance your visit to "El Greco to Velázquez" with a hotel package.
 Location: Gund GalleryClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Winslow Homer:&#x3C;br&#x3E;American Scenes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 1/4/2009  Selections from the Museum's rich collection of works by Winslow Homer (1836–1910) are on view in the Lee Gallery, just inside the newly opened State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance. From a childhood drawing through his late seascapes in oil, the exhibition includes designs for illustrations from popular periodicals like Harper’s Weekly, paintings, watercolors, and rarely seen etchings. Among the themes featured are images from the Civil War, paintings of childhood and leisure from the 1870s, and seascapes from the 1880s until just before Homer’s death in 1910. "Winslow Homer: American Scenes" offers an extraordinary glimpse at the artist’s working method in a variety of media and for a variety of audiences throughout his career. Location: Lee GalleryClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Great Company:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Portraits by European Masters</title>
<link>http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&#x26;subkey=6210</link>
<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 1/4/2009  At the heart of the second floor of the Evans Wing, at the top of the great staircase that opens from the new State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, enjoy a special installation of some of the MFA's greatest European portraits. Paintings and sculpture span the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including canvases by Moroni and Gainsborough, by Degas and van Gogh, and by Matisse and Beckmann—as well as marble busts by Canova and Thorvaldsen. Sitters, some unknown, include the poet Lord Byron, Degas's younger sister, and van Gogh's great friend Augustine Roulin. Location: Upper HemicycleClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Preserving History, Making History:&#x3C;br&#x3E;The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/20/2008 - 9/22/2009  As part of celebrating the renovation and re-opening of the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, this exhibition tells the story of the Museum's history, its architecture, and its vital role as a community resource and partner.

Rarely seen historic photographs, paintings, sculpture, archival documents, and architectural fragments bring the long and distinguished history of the MFA to life for a new generation. The exhibition, on view in the Lower Hemicycle, opens with the founding of the MFA in 1870 and documents the first Museum building in Copley Square, as well as the many expansions and renovations to the Museum's present home on Huntington Avenue, which opened in 1909. It also explores current and future building plans, including the transformative project underway now and the recent acquisition of the Forsyth Institute building.
 Location: Lower HemicycleClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Twentieth-Century Modernism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6/30/2008 - 10/1/2008  This select installation in the Lower Rotunda features masterpieces of twentieth-century modernism from the Lane Collection, including the lyrical Dancing Willows by Arthur G. Dove, shown above. Also on view are works by Stuart Davis, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Location: Lower RotundaClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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<title>Jul 25: Exhibition - Imperishable Beauty:&#x3C;br&#x3E;Art Nouveau Jewelry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[7/23/2008 - 11/9/2008  This exhibition includes about 120 works by the leading designers and fabricators of late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Art Nouveau jewelry. Although many of these artists acquired their skills in traditional, high-style jewelry houses, they found inspiration in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, the philosophy of John Ruskin (1819–1900), the paintings and poetry of the symbolists, and the arts of Japan. For motifs, they looked to the flora (orchids, lilies) and fauna (dragonflies, butterflies) of the natural world and the sensuality of the female form. This new aesthetic was, in large measure, a reaction against nineteenth century historicism, industrialization, and the “tyranny of the diamond,” and these Art Nouveau artists chose to interpret nature rather than imitate it.

René Lalique (1860–1945) was the most renowned Art Nouveau artist, whose one-of-a-kind pieces were often large and made of unusual and inexpensive materials such as horn, enamel, and glass. Art Nouveau designers/jewelers also employed a pastel color palette much like the Impressionists. Color was, for the most part, achieved through the use of enamel, and plique à jour (open to light) enameling added a delicacy and level of technical sophistication not previously seen in jewelry. In addition to works by Lalique, jewelry by Georges Fouquet (1862–1957), Eugène Feuillâtre (1870–1916), and Lucien Gaillard (1861–1933) is shown, as are paintings, sculpture, prints, posters, textiles, and decorative arts from the period. 
 Location: Torf GalleryClick here for details(c) 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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