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Work by Avery Singer was collected by major European institutions and both the Whitney and MoMA in New York, all before the ...

Moo Deng and Hawk Tuah, but also of a lot of great crossovers between the fine art world and the broader culture.

The Phaistos disk is covered in indecipherable symbols.

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