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Other Spaces at the Lieu Center 548

July 29, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Dia:Chelsea come X-Initiative Space in its newest incarnation as the Lieu Center 548. Other Spaces, curated by Jayne Dorst, is a poignant show based on Michel Foucault’s theories on the psycho-spatial experience. The concept works will with this space, since the Lieu is as well a transient space where information is shared, ideas are created and transformed by those who pass though it. Enjoyed Palma Blank’s optical abstract paintings, Sam Falls’ photos. The video piece by Left Coast ( […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: David Shull, Janye Dorst, Left Coast, Lieu Center 548, Palma Blank, Sam Falls

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Vice Magazine Presents Jerry Hsu: The Torture Never Stops

July 22, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Vice Magazine’s resident photographer Jerry Hsu put together a gritty show of his favorites titled The Torture Never Stops. Part documentary part reportage part kids behaving badly, Hsu documents life everyday though the lens of a perversly hillarious lens.

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Jerry Hsu, Vice Magazine

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Kaws at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

July 19, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is a non collecting museum in scenic Ridgefield Connecticut. The Aldrich is featuring grafitti artist Brian Donnelly a.k.a Kaws first solo museum show. The survey highlights the ambiguity of grafitti art and artist in the museum world. How illegal tagging has risen in the esteem of the establishment and the commodification of art transgressed into the profitablity of merchandise. Featuring original paintings, sculptures in scale from museum large to pocketsized merchandise, Kaws presents pop culture […]

Categories: Graffiti, New York, Street Art • Tags: Aldrich Museum, Kaws

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Sultry II at Kris Graves Projects

July 10, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Brooklyn gallery +Kris Graves Projects presents the show Sultry II, a continuation of last year’s Sultry I – a photo exhibition which negotiates the theme of sensual beyond the exploitation of the human body towards the idea of visual stimulation through the human figure. Favorites included: Sari Wynne, Jowhara Al Saud These gorgeous works by Gabriela Herman, K Yoland M (top) and Greg Miller (bottom right).

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Gabriela Herman, Greg Miller, K Yoland M, Kris Graves Projects

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Jenny Holzer for Keds Shoes

July 6, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Jenny Holzer, famous for her LCD Truisms, has collaborated with Keds shoes and the Whitney Museum in the creation of a line of shoes emblazoned witht he slogan “Protect me from what I want”

Categories: New York • Tags: Jenny Holzer, Keds Shoes, Whitney New York

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Future Cinema -Secret Cinema New York

July 1, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Future Cinema, a British film screening company, hosted a 60s Mod happening at the Shangri-la Studio in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up was screened, a film about a blasé fashion photographer in 1960s London, rifed with the ennui of his fashion fame, driven by a tortured artistic passion. The massive event space set the scene with recreations of the film and populated the crowd with Mod dancers and swinging London decor. The happening was a mis en scene to […]

Categories: Alternative Spaces, Performance • Tags: Future Cinema -Secret Cinema New York

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The Evryali Score at David Zwirner

June 29, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Evryali Score on view at David Zwirner is curated by Olivia Shao, who also curated The Baghdad Batteries Rotating Gallery show at PS.1. Evryali Score is a dialogue responding to the works in the Baghdad Batteries, the press release a (love) letter to Klaus Biesenbach from David Zwirner, requesting the collaboration to reinstall Baghdad Batteries and then use the second gallery space as a point of departure to continue the dialogue. ArtJetSet favorites Nick Mauss (wall mural), Robert Breer […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: david zwirner, Joe Jones, Nick Mauss, Robert Breer

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Mike Weiss The Reflexive Self

June 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The current exhibition, The Reflexive Self at Mike Weiss Gallery features two of my favorite Canadian artists. Marc Séguin uses human ashes to create dark ephemeral portraits. Kim Dorland’s bright vivid forests of thickly layered painted canvases. The show as a whole is a bit incongruent, bringing together young artists working in a variety of media and themes.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Kim Dorland, Marc Séguin, Mike Weiss Gallery

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The Mass Ornament at Barbara Gladstone

June 23, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Curated by John Rasmussen, The Mass Ornament comes from a collection of essays by German writter Siegfried Kracauer, which discuss topics of arcades, film, photography and boredom.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Barbara Gladstone, John Rasmussen

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International Center for Photography MFA show

June 21, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The International Center for Photography hosted their year end MFA show, highlighting the best of their full time students’ work. Loved Valentina Riccardi (above), Ayumi Tanaka’s lightboxes with negatives, and Athena Torri’s suburban landscapes.

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Anselm Keifer Palmsonntag at the Art Gallery of Ontario

June 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The installation features a 30 foot long palm tree, cast in fiberglass and resin, surrounded by 44 glass framed painting compositions. True to Keifer’s pallet of using earth, organic matter, roots, and flowers in his vitrine like paintings, conveying spiritual and mythical territories.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Anselm Kiefer, Art Gallery of Ontario, Palmsonntag

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Yale Photography MFA 2010

June 5, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Helac & Wirth Art Advisory in conjunction with 25CPW Gallery (an artist run gallery space) presented Stranger Than Fiction, featuring Yale Photography MFA Thesis show. Taught by Gregory Crewdson and Richard Benson, nine graduating students work was featured.ArtJetSet favorites included Tatiana Grigorenko’s blocked out family portraits. Monika Sziladi socialite social setting photos, Hrvoje Slovenc interior spaces. Lucas Foglia gorgeous landscapes.

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Lucas Foglia, Monika Sziladi, Tatiana Grigorenko, Yale MFA

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Exit Art Benefit Preview

June 4, 2010 by ArtJetSet

New York’s Exit Art is an alternative art space which supports emerging contemporary artists. ArtJetSet attended the preview for their annual Ecstasy 2010 Benefit Auction, being held this Monday June 7 7:30-9:30pm. The Silent Auction has a wealth of incredible works for sale, a great opportunity to support an outstanding art initiative as well as scooping up great art by up and coming as well as known and established contemporary artists. This benefit is a brilliant way to build an […]

Categories: Auction, Benefit and Fundraiser • Tags: AIDS 3-D, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Exit Art, James Nares, Scott Campbell

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Contact Photography Festival, Toronto

June 3, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Every May, Toronto is host to the Contact Photography Festival where galleries, restaurants, museums, and public spaces are invited to host photo shows. This year’s theme Pervasive Influence, explored the social and political consequences of the medium of photography, in a world devoted to the image. The festival included many amazing outdoor site specific installations (like the Barbara Kruger above) and a phenomenal exhibition at the University of Toronto Arts Centre titled Through the Vanishing Point discussing the achievements and […]

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David Altmejd at Art Gallery of Ontario

May 24, 2010 by ArtJetSet

This spectacular David Altmejd installation was featured for Canada at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The assembled spaces are a mix of mirrors, organic and man-made found objects, building towards what Altmejd calls “narative potential” Kelly Richardson is another young emerging Canadian artist working in the theme of man vs. nature technology in her video installation. ArtJetSet saw this piece at Birch Libralato a few years ago, and it was very happy to revisit it at the AGO.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: David Altmejd, Kelly Richardson

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Ogilvy&Mather Presents New Language at the Chocoloate Factory

May 20, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Categories: Private Collection • Tags: Chocolate Factory, Danica Phelps, Ivan Capote, Mickey Smith, Ogilvy and Mather

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Anna Gaskell at Yvon Lambert

May 16, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Known for her eerie saturated colour portraits of Alice in Wonderland styled young girls, Anna Gaskell’s new show at Yvon Lambert show a strong maturation in a new direction. Monochrome photos of boys in winter landscape, with their heads and faces cropped or obscured, clothed in oversized suits creating a tense narrative of religious ritual and disaffection.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Anna Gaskell, Yvon Lambert New York

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Shepard Fairey Mural

May 14, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Up went Shepard Fairey’s MayDay mural over the Os Gemeos. Apparently causing much noise amongst local grafitti artists, who have tagged up the Fairey. ArtJetSet heard a very interesting criticism about Jeffrey Deitch’s final New York gallery show featuring Fairey’s works on paper, and including this mural. As Luhring Augustine celebrated their 25th aniversairy with an amazing group show celebrating the artists that they represent…. Deitch should have done the same, instead of this highly criticized Fairey show.

Categories: Graffiti, Street Art • Tags: Deitch Project, Shepard Fairey

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Christian Boltanski No Man’s Land at Park Avenue Armory

May 13, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Christian Boltanski’s No Man’s Land fills the interior of the Park Avenue Armory with thousands of pieces of used clothing, and creating a 40-foot-high mountain. A huge clawed crane grabs clumps of clothing from the top of the pile and then the pieces flutter back down to the floor. The floor is gridded off into sections where coats are laid out, animated by the pounding sound of human heartbeats. Visitors have the opportunity to contribute their heartbeats to the piece […]

Categories: Installations • Tags: Christian Boltanski, Park Avenue Armory

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TwentyFive at Luhring Augustine

May 12, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Luhring Augustine celebrates their 25th anniversary with an amazing show titled TWENTY FIVE. This group exhibition celebrates their history with a stellar show including works by: Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, George Condo, William Daniels, Günther Förg, Zarina Hashmi, Johannes Kahrs, Jon Kessler, Martin Kippenberger, Ragnar Kjartansson, Luisa Lambri, Glenn Ligon, Paul McCarthy, Yasumasa Morimura, Daido Moriyama, Reinhard Mucha, David Musgrave, Cady Noland, Ed Paschke, Jack Pierson, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Prina, Josh Smith, Joel Sternfeld, Tunga, Guido van der Werve, Rachel […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Albert Oehlen, Gregory Crewdson, Janet Cardiff, Luhring Augustine, Pipilotti Rist

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David Salle at Mary Boone

May 11, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Mary Boone Gallery is showing Some Pictures from the 80’s, a collection of works by David Salle.The 80’s was the height of Salle’s signature style, the works in this show embody and amazing collection of Salle’s best works.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: David Salle, Mary Boone Gallery

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Heather Rowe talks about Trouble Everyday at D’Amelio Terras

May 10, 2010 by ArtJetSet

One of the many New York Gallery Week events was artist Heather Rowe in conversation with Jacob Proctor, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art at D’Amelio Terras Gallery. Rowe inverts the construction of the interior space using materials in house construction like drywall, carpet sponge, laminate, and ornamental cornices. Rowe spoke about the structures calling to scaffolding, and the mirrors creating a disjuncture between the visual perception of the piece and […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea, Panel + Symposiums • Tags: D'Amelio Terras, Heather Rowe, Trouble Everyday

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Ryan V. Brennan at the National Arts Club

May 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

National Arts Club presented Beneath The Unraveling Horizon a solo exhibition by the winner of the the Madrigano Fellowship for the Arts, Ryan V. Brennan.

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Active Liberty Institute Cultural Centre Inaugural Party

May 6, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Active Liberty Institute, a Clinton Global Initiative partner, hosted its inaugural fundraiser to provide a platform for young artists from underdeveloped countries to show their works in New York. The Party was hosted at Phillips de Pury & Co, in conjunction with their spring contempary art sale inclduing th collection of Halsey Minor.

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Active Liberty Institute, Inaugural Party

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New York Gallery Week May 7 – 10

May 3, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Following the leads of Berlin Gallery Weekend, New York Gallery Week launches May 7. ArtJetSet is looking forward to a weekend packed with openings, book signings, artist lectures, and talks. Follow this link to download the PDF of the Events Schedule. http://www.newyorkgalleryweek.com/pdf/nygwbklt_US_web.pdfLooking forward to:Hauser & Wirth: Opening for artist Roni HornTanya Bonakdar Gallery: Conversation with Uta Barth hosted in conjunction with Independent Curators InternationalThe Drawing Center: Brett Littman walk through of Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?Lehmann Maupin […]

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James Welling at Zwirner

April 23, 2010 by ArtJetSet

James Welling’s Glass House is an exhibition exploring the iconic Glass House built in 1949 by Philip Johnson. Welling uses a variety of coloured filters between the lens and the subject to create this intensely saturated effect.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: James Welling, Zwirner

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Sawdust Mountain – Eirik Johnson at Aperture Foundation

April 20, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these industries is increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability.

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Aperture Foundation Gallery, Eirik Johnson, Sawdust Mountain

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Silverstein Photography Annual

April 15, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Bruce Silverstein hosts the annual exhibition inviting 10 prominent curators to nominate one emerging artist whom they feel deserve an opportunity for grander exposure.The wall text includes a brief bio and commentary by the curator of why they selected that artist.I really enjoyed this series by Charlotte Haslund-Christensen

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Janet Cardiff at Luhring Augustine

April 14, 2010 by ArtJetSet

  Luhring Augustine present the 3rd solo show by Canadian duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller create immersive multimedia works, combining film sound space and quintessential element of sound. The result is a multisensory immersion into a complex and monotone narrative decorated by a whirlwind of lights and layers. Telephones hooked up to iPods with titles like We’re in some strange country, Wallet, I can’t remember (World turning), I was a blond man. The Carnie is a carousel that […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Janet Cardiff, Luhring Augustine

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Whitewall Spring Issue Launch Party

April 9, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Whitewall Magazine launched their Spring issue at Tony Shafrazi Gallery to honour Peter Marino for the Design Issue.

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Michaele Jordana Berman new show Cyborg – The Human Condition at Headbones Gallery

April 1, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Michaele Jordana Berman is a Canadian music and art icon. A multiplatform artist, a celebrated photorealist painter, and founder of Canada’s New Wave/ Punk scene with her band The Poles’ celebrated single CN Tower. The Headbones Gallery presents new works by Michaele Jordana titled Cyborg – The Human Condition. This is an exceptional showcase of the evolution of this brillant artist. Harmonizing the multifaceted layers of hyperrealism, photography, the postmodern condition and electronic media, this is a show not to […]

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Whitney Biennial 2010

March 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

This year is the 75th edition of the Whitney Biennials. This year the show is simply titled 2010 – as opposed to traditional thematics based on cultural issues or politics, this year’s theme is centered around contemporary art production. An undercurrent seemingly – images procured from the internet or youtube, bizzare incongruent performative video, and surprisingly modest and thoughtly beautiful pen and ink drawings. Highlights of works that I really enjoyed: Storm Tharp builds his strange and beautiful characters by […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Bruce High Quality Foundation, Charles Ray, James Casebere, Pae White, Storm Tharp, whitney biennal

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Size DOES Matters at FLAG Art Foundation

March 24, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The FLAG Art Foundation invited Shaquille O’Neal to curate a show exploring the notion of size in the current exhibition Size DOES Matter. The 7’1 Basketball star wears many hats, including athlete, rapper, actor, and now curator.This show is truly amazing, the bluechip artists, the dynamic tension of the small and large, the space perception and the juxtapositions. Bravo Shaq!! Robert Therrien (Table and 6 Chairs), Maurizio Cattelan’s Untitled Elevators Richard Phillips, Lisa Yuskavage, Don Brown, Other featured artists included […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Don Brown, Flag Art Foundation, Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Therrien, Shaq, Size Does Matter

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MassMoca

March 22, 2010 by ArtJetSet

MassMoca, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is an amazing and massive space. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s project Gravity Is a Force to be Reckoned With, based on Mies van der Rohe’s 50×50 House project.The entire space is inverted, suspended from the ceiling… except a coffee cup and saucer which has come crashing down from the table. The phone rings and a narrative is played from within the glass house. A frustrated couple trying to sort out the story. Guy Ben-Ner: Thursday […]

Categories: Museum • Tags: Guy Ben-Ner, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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Mass MoCA

March 18, 2010 by ArtJetSet

MassMoca, located in North Adams Massachusetts, opened in 1999 hosting monumental works and performances. Natalie Jeremijenko: Tree Logic – Tree Logic, the art of the piece is not found in its condition at any single point in time, but in the change of the trees over time. Trees are dynamic natural systems, and Tree Logic reveals this dynamism. The familiar, almost iconic shape of the tree in nature is the result of gravitropic and phototropic responses: the tree grows away […]

Categories: Museum • Tags: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Natalie Jeremijenko

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Topia Performance Space in Adams, MA.

March 16, 2010 by ArtJetSet

During the weekend in Adams, visiting MassMoca, ArtJetSet came across an amazing initiative, Topia Arts Center located on 27 Park Street, Adams MA. Topia Arts Center is a new “green” artist led performing arts and educational center in development in Adams presenting quality music, dance, theater, circus arts, film and visual art exhibits as well as educational and community programs. Two performing artists from New York City, formed Topia Arts, LLC and purchased the theater structure with the vision of […]

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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo at Blue Box

March 11, 2010 by ArtJetSet

New Media artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo presented Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes in conjunction with BlueBox Gallery at the Rober Smith Hotel. Interactive cabinets of curiosities, Barcia-Colombo’s digital sculptures move and react within their glass encasing. BlueBox Gallery uses pop-up spaces as platforms to showcase emerging artists using technologies in unique and innovative ways.

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The Armory Show

March 9, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Armory View from above, Warhol pillows at Ferrus GalleryRichard Mosse and Robert Shana Parkeharrison at Jack Shainman, Gabi Trinkaus at Georg Kargl Vienna, Lisson Gallery, Sebstiaan Bremer at Hales London, Carter and Douglas Gordon at Yvon Lambert,Galerie Jousse Entriprise, Enoc Perez at Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, Richard Jackson

Categories: The Armory Show • Tags: Douglas Gordon, Enoc Perez at Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, Gabi Trinkaus, Richard Jackson, Richard Mosse and Robert Shana Parkeharrison, Sebstiaan Bremer, The Armory Show

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ArtJetSetters

March 8, 2010 by ArtJetSet

ArtJetSet would like to collaborate with Sameer on developing an app that tracks him through the best art openings in the city. I seem to have bumped into Sameer at nearly every art event I’ve been to in the past few months…. it’s foursquare without the GPS. Here at the Artforum Independent Party in front of the giant inflatable union workers rat, I promised a dedicated post to a dedicated vernissage connoisseur.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Events • Tags: Artforum Party, Independent Art Fair

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Independant

March 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

As the spectacular last act of the X Initiative, ‘The Independent” branded a Hybrid Forum, suggested that a new generation was finding ways to create structures of the Art industry. A fair with free entry for the public exhibited art for sale that was not in booths. Hosted presentations and installations by highly regarded international figures and has been developed with creative advisors, Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York and Matthew Higgs, Director of the nonprofit White Columns, New […]

Categories: Art Fairs, Independent • Tags: Director of the nonprofit White Columns, New York and Matthew Higgs, New York., Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, X-Initiative

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