Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)
Nationality: Russian
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Kandinsky, 1901-1913, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1913, Printed material
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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky and R. Piper & Co. Title: Uber das Geistige in der Kunst
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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky Title: Study for Improvisation V Date: 1910 Medium: oil on cardboard pulp
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Kandinsky, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1930, Printed material and 1 woodcut printed in black, yellow, and red on Vélin de Torpes paper
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Sign, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1925, Oil on cardboard
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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky and R. Piper and Co. Title: Klänge Date: 1913 Medium: book with
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Yellow Border, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1930, Oil on cardboard
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Untitled Improvisation III, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1914, Oil on cardboard
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Semicircle, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1927, Watercolor and india ink on paper
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Melodious, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1924, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Untitled, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1915, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Flame, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure on wove paper
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Clouds, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure on wove paper
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Birds, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure on wove paper
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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky Title: Nymphenburg Date: 1901 Medium: oil on canvas board Dimensions: H.9-1/2 x
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Xylographies, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Six heliogravures on wove paper
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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky and Propylaen Press, Berlin Title: Kleine Welten VI, from Kleine Welten portfolio
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Three Free Circles, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , May 1923, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Mountain lake, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1903, Woodcut on laid paper
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Landscape with figure and Phoenix, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure on wove paper
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Church, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure (photo engraving) on wove paper
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Flute, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure (photo engraving) on wove paper
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Untitled woodcut, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1924, Woodcut on heavy oatmeal paper
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Cat, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Woodcut on wove paper
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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky Title: Am Stande Date: 1903 Medium: woodcut Dimensions: H.12 x W.12 in.
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Motif for Improvisation 25, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on laid Van Gelder laid paper
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Women in the woods, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Heliogravure (photo engraving) on wove paper
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Wassily Kandinsky Untitled Woodcut 1935
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Wassily Kandinsky Reiterweg Woodcut 1911
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Composition 2, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Improvisation 1, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Improvisation 19, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Improvisation 7, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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The Baptized, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Shawm, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Woodcut on wove paper
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Judgment day, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1912, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Improvisation 4, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Wassily Kandinsky Motiv aus Improvisatio 25 Woodcut 1911
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Wassily Kandinsky Apfelbaum Color woodcut 1911
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Wassily Kandinsky Berge Color woodcut 1911
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Woodcut for Der Sturm, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Arrival of the merchants, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1903, Woodcut on wove paper
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Black spot, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1912, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Reclining couple, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on laid paper
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Vignette for ”Later”, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Variation after Improvisation 21, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Reclining couple, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on laid paper
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Vignette for ”Not”, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Seated girl, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1907, Woodcut on wove paper
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Vignette for ”Some”, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Motif from Improvisation 10, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Vignette for ”Still ?”, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Riding path, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Vignette for ”That”, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Vignette for ”Seeing”, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on Van Gelder paper
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Reclining couple, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia, Moscow, 1866 - 1944) , 1911, Woodcut on laid paper
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Wassily Kandinsky Kleine Welten X from the set Kleine Welten drypoint 1922
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Wassily Kandinsky Kleine Welten VI from the set Kleine Welten woodcut 1922
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Wassily Kandinsky Kleine Welten XI from the set Kleine Welten drypoint 1922
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Wassily Kandinsky Kleine Welten XII from the set Kleine Welten drypoint 1922

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Jewish Museum: Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider
Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider will place on view 60 paintings, including major works by Kandinsky and members of the German Expressionist Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter) group, as well as a significant number of paintings by Schoenberg. Thi...
Cobra Museum: From Kandinsky till Corneille, Linoleum in art during the 20th century.
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Historical Museum of Vienna: Chagall, Kandinsky and The Russian Experiment, Drawings and Watercolors from the Puschkin Museum
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Chicago Cultural Center: Painting Revolution: Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde
Other artists include Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Liubov Popova, Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin, whose ideas were eagerly taken up by ...
Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta: Wassily Kandinsky: Tradition and Abstraction in Russia
The chronology begins in 1896, the year in which Kandinsky, at the age of thirty (born in Odessa in 1866), with a law degree, married to his cousin Anja Shemjakina, abandoned his academic career and moved toMunich to work exclusively o...
Ketterer Kunst: 16 Works from the Herbert and Natalie Kirshner Collection, New York
Gabriele Münter's Kandinsky und Erma Bossi am Tisch was made in 1909, like two other oil paintings with the same subject, shortly after the artist bought her house in Murnau. It shows the interior of the living room in the so-called Russenhaus – a...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: The Blue Rider Artists: Works from the Busch-Reisinger Museum and other Collections
Artists in the Blue Rider included Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke, as well as Franz Marc and others....
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in 1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec, M...
Toledo Museum of Art: THE MODERN WOODCUT
The Modern Woodcut draws on the permanent collection of the Toledo Museum of Art to exhibit European and American artists using this traditional technique in a variety of formats. The show includes individual prints and prints bound into books, a...
Phillips Collection: William Scharf: Paintings, 1984-2000
Scharf's work, which brings to mind the paintings of Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, for whom he served as a studio assistant, has been considered second generation abstract expressionist. His sources and references, howeve...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Russian Avantgardes
The exhibition primarily focuses on painting and sculpture, but will also include two special sections, one on photography and another on design. The chronological span of the exhibition runs from 1907 to around 1930. For Russia and what was to be...
JEWISH MUSEUM: Berlin Metropolis: Jews And The New Culture, 1890-1918
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
The exhibition can thus be seen as Georgia O’Keeffe’s artistic self-portrait. It includes all aspects of her work – flowers, abstractions and landscapes – from New York City and Lake George as well as from her beloved New Mexico. Georgia O’Kee...
Somerset House: New displays: Into the 20th Century
New loans will include a group of over 30 Fauve paintings, including work by Matisse, Derain, Dufy and Vlaminck, as well as a selection of paintings and drawings by Kandinsky. The sculpture will include by Degas, Rodin, Maillol, Matisse, Laurens, ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Painting Revolution: Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde
Internationally acclaimed as pioneers of modern art, Kandinsky and Malevich were among the first artists to create abstract art, a style developi...
Walker Art Center: Franz Marc and the Blue Rider
After Marc encountered the kindred spirits who would later form the core of the Blue Rider group--including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Alexej Jawlensky--his style matured into a broader artistic p...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko
We are very pleased to present this exhibition of modern masterpieces from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim," said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Renoir to Rothko offers a sweeping overview of painting from th...
Evergreen Cultural Centre: Call for Artists: Digitalis 2: The Spiritual in Digital Art
Please submit a maximum of 3 low resolution JPEG or GIF files as well as a bio, artist statement and proposal to electric@telus.net by June 1, 2002 The Evergreen Cultural Centre is located in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, near Vancouver (3...
Art Gallery of Ontario: From Michelangelo to Picasso: Great Master Drawings from the Collection of the Albertina, Vienna
The selection of drawings in this exhibition demonstrates the breadth and strength of the Albertina’s holdings. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive ove...
Galleria Bellarte: Honoring the Big Leaguers II (A Visual Metaphor) - Enriquillo Amiama
Passion, Sensitivity and the Aesthetics of Montage From a country of passion and baseball, born in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Enriquillo Rodriguez Amiama is well versed in methods from all artistic traditions, has gained ins...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Derriere le Miroir: 35 Original Engravings from the Magazine 1946 to 1982
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Quen...
The Wall Gallery: Leyla Murr : Latest Works
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Leyla Murr
Title: Springtime 1
Year Created: 2007
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 52 cm
Height: 72 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Price: US$ 700
Aakriti Art Gallery: Nature - Paintings by Kazi Ghiyasuddin
Ghiyasuddin's works can be considered as personal documentation of the vibrations that he senses, within and adjoining him. Straining the vital essence of the life and environment, and putting it up for it viewers should be recognized as an import...
gallery twenty-four: Christopher Gulick: Kinetic Sculpture
Christopher will be “artist in residence” for the duration of the exhibit. Gulick comments about is work: "Kinetic Mobile sculpture is like a companion. They occupy space similar to a friend. They converse with us at a deep,inner level. They a...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Vision and Reality - Conceptions of the 20th Century
Louisianas story of the 20th century falls into chapters linking contemporary and classical modern art. Its point of departure is the great 20th-century avant-garde movements: Russian Constructiv...
Sprengel Museum: Cubisme - Cubism: An Artistic Watershed in Europe 1906-1926
Around then, the Moscow collector Ivan Morossov also bought Picassos. Villa Schschukin in the grand Snamenski Lane was open to the public from 1909, providing many Moscow artists, such as M. Larionov and N. Gont-scharova, David Buliyuk, Kasimir Ma...
Museum Alfons Blomme: Shine : Svein Koningen and Jan Duytschaever
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Artist: Svein Koningen
Title: Marilyn 1
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 47.3 inches
Height: 47.3 inches
Depth: 2 inches
Price: US$ 6,200

Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: Donation Dora Hartwig
An item of very special importance is a copy of Max Beckmann’s Apocalypse dedicated to Josef Hartwig. Until he was dismissed in 1933, Beckmann taught with Hartwig at the Frankfurt Art School. The book was produced in a very small wartime print ru...
Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co. Gallery: Painting on the Roof: Works Curated by Veit Loers
Most of the nine artists come from southern Germany. They come to grips with the idea of narrative art, though without any debt to it. They are interested in the concept of the icon, in the true sense of the term, that of representative painting. ...
Pushkin Museum at Arbat: Earth: Death-Birth Work by Angel Orensanz
The exhibition consists of a host of strongly poetic sculpture pieces that fly over the three spaces, while hige projections give context to those sculptures and arresting drawings in which Orensanz capture the drama of the Earth as grave and cra...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: Masterpieces and Master Collectors: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Hermitage and Guggenheim Museums
The exhibition focuses on the point at which the two collections overlap: the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This period marks the time when Paris’s radical avant-garde was rejecting the finished surfaces, naturalistic colors, realis...
Pump House Gallery: Katy Dove: New Commisioned Work
Dove's mesmerising kaleidoscopic animations investigate the complex relationship between perception, colour and sound. Much of her work takes the form of a visual and audio representation of an idea, emotion or perception using animation to red...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Photographs by Josef Breitenbach
Breitenbach began taking photographs while travelling as a wine merchant with his family's firm in the 1920s. He established a successful portrait studio in his native Munich in 1932, but as a Jew involved in left-wing politics, was forced to fle...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Mondrian Painting Acquired from the Original Owners
While many paintings by Mondrian have been damaged by overly aggressive conservation treatment, Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red is in impeccable condition. For decades the design of Mondrian’s works was considered the most critical a...
Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: Colourful! - The Wall-Painting Workshop at the Bauhaus
This assumption is contradicted not only by contemporary documents, but also by the astonishing variety of original colours found on Bauhaus buildings in the eastern German states since 1989. The aim of the exhibition 'Colourful!' is to demonstrat...
Cafe Gallery Project: Sybille Berger: New Paintings and Sketches
Berger creates sketches which she makes on canvas at a small scale before choosing each idea. These are displayed in the Long Gallery alongside major works in the Main Space to demonstrate the relationship between the development of the ideas for ...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Allan Eddy: Lost Sight Is Not Lost Vision
Allan Eddy, an award wining Atlanta College of Art graduate, winning the Forward Arts Foundation Scholarship in 1987, and hailed as the next Kandinsky, Matta or Miró, paints in abstract form. His art hangs in many collections, including Elton Jo...
Alexis International: Towards The Light: Keith Morant
The gallery hopes to squeeze in another show of his work next year but with interest now buzzing on both east and west coasts of America and his commitment to represent New Zealand at the 2007 International Florence Biennale, things may be a bit t...

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