Sentences with phrase «show black art»

The initial success of Webster's solo exhibition eventually propelled him into the national spotlight when the Dallas Museum of Art exhibited his work in group show Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African - American Art on view December 3, 1989 through February 5, 1990.

Not exact matches

Actors Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff and the original Broadway cast of «Spring Awakening» came down from New York April 17 to help with a rehearsal of the same show at the Boca Black Box Center for the Arts in Boca Raton.
An annual art and music show; Black History Month celebration; and presentations regarding gender and generational differences, work - life balance and world cultures and religions are some of the initiatives the Diversity Council leads.
In Restoring Art Done Right, episode 6 of «Speaking of Chemistry», Sophia Cai shows you how chemists and conservators teamed up to remove graffiti from priceless art — Mark Rothko's «Black on Maroon&raquArt Done Right, episode 6 of «Speaking of Chemistry», Sophia Cai shows you how chemists and conservators teamed up to remove graffiti from priceless art — Mark Rothko's «Black on Maroon&raquart — Mark Rothko's «Black on Maroon».
Along with John Regan of Dublin City University, CCA research fellow Eli Visbal, and colleagues, Bryan used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show how a galaxy that has just collapsed and started forming stars can irradiate a galactic partner nearby so that some of the partner galaxy's gas collapses into a black hole.
Outline the triangles with your nail varnish pen and allow to dry.The one pictured is Maybelline Color Show Designer Nail Art Pen in Black.
Pair it with... the only pair of black jeans you can count on in your wardrobe, lace up booties, and a bold clutch for the art show you've been dying to go to.
Celebrities (and Mickey Mouse) Show Up In Support of the Whitney Art Party — A black Mickey Mouse sculpture with a huge erect penis was up for auction in one room — and yes, it sold.
NEW YORK, United States — At Proenza Schouler's Spring / Summer 2017 runway show held in the Dia: Chelsea art gallery, box - shaped seats draped with black patent leather were arranged in a Pac - Man maze.
Do you see a hot chick walking down the street and scan every inch of skin showing, hoping to see a bit of green, red, or black that you know is a sexy piece of body art?
His past career as a black ops commando keeps bubbling to the surface, however, and the second trailer for The Equalizer shows him dipping back into the art of justice by retrieving a stolen ring belonging to one of his co-workers.
Here's a look at some concept art from the Marvel Event showing Black Panther's costume in the movie:
With the fresh and buzzy Orange is the New Black coming in as a favorite and with a few Creative Arts Emmys in hand (including Guest Actress in a Comedy Uzo Aduba), that new show went home empty - handed.
Naylor is a high priest of this black art: invited onto a TV talk show, he's pitted against a trio of antismoking advocates and a teenage boy with cancer, yet by the end of the show he's won the kid over to his side and isolated the other three panelists, who don't know what hit them.
Black film, and black music, and black art tend to generate in a black audience the strong urge to show support, and that has made sense to me more often than not, and driven me to both financially support and sometimes rigorously defend finished products that aren't necessarily of the highest quaBlack film, and black music, and black art tend to generate in a black audience the strong urge to show support, and that has made sense to me more often than not, and driven me to both financially support and sometimes rigorously defend finished products that aren't necessarily of the highest quablack music, and black art tend to generate in a black audience the strong urge to show support, and that has made sense to me more often than not, and driven me to both financially support and sometimes rigorously defend finished products that aren't necessarily of the highest quablack art tend to generate in a black audience the strong urge to show support, and that has made sense to me more often than not, and driven me to both financially support and sometimes rigorously defend finished products that aren't necessarily of the highest quablack audience the strong urge to show support, and that has made sense to me more often than not, and driven me to both financially support and sometimes rigorously defend finished products that aren't necessarily of the highest quality.
Stemming from an obsession with the art house film posters that decorated the exterior walls of local movie theatres, the book shows Refn's earliest visual connection with film, including the vintage visuals of SPIKED HEELS AND BLACK NYLONS, OBSCENE HOUSE and ALICE IN ACIDLAND to THE TWISTED SEX, TORTURE ME KISS ME and ZERO IN AND SCREAM.
All of this might be a gorgeous bore, à la the similarly languid Only God Forgives, if it weren't perched on the edge of black comedy — a cliff it slips straight off of whenever Keanu Reeves, as a shady motel manager, shows up to break the art - horror spell.
Actress Letitia Wright wonderfully brought the Wakandan princess to life in Ryan Coogler's record - breaking hit Black Panther, and now one of the film's artists has shared some Shuri concept art that shows off a few early designs for the tech - savvy genius.
New concept art for Marvel's Black Panther shows what one fan - favorite character would look like in the hero's signature suit.
The results showed a continued racial divide — in ninth grade language arts, about 90 percent of white students are in honors, compared to less than 50 percent of black students.
The show, which will also be streamed live on Twitch, will include a Street Fighter II tournament, costume contest, and live art by Amy Black, a prominent tattoo artist.
IGNs sidebar displayed an ad showing the Black Ops 4 art with what can presumably be Playstation exclusivity at the bottom (as previously predicted).
Black Desert Online Japan recently showed out a video of the upcoming Magoria and Kamasylve update with some concept art of the new regions and the dark elf class.
Shown at multiple E3s, this indie platformer kept luring us in with its black and white / Technicolour classic Disney art style then disappearing into silence.
We will be showcasing several show - exclusive vinyl variants including an extremely limited «Black Pumpkin» vinyl variant for the The Addams Family «Original Music from the Addams Family» 50th Anniversary Edition LP, a «Brains & Guts» vinyl variant for the best - selling The Walking Dead «Original Soundtrack Vol.1» LP, a «Highland Mists» vinyl variant for the Outlander «Original Television Soundtrack Vol.1» Double LP, three colored vinyl variants for the Book of Life «Original Motion Picture Soundtrack» based on key characters from the hit animated film, as well as a very limited set of five 18» x 24» hand - screened art prints by artist Andrew Barr, inspired by everyone's favorite breakfast cereal characters and entitled «Cereal Chillers».
Sherald has received wide acclaim recently for her portraits of black Americans, and was chosen last year to paint Michelle Obama's portrait, which will be unveiled on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Sherald's first solo museum show will follow at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis this coming May.
At the start is the deathly glamour of Stella's Black Paintings — bands in matte enamel, separated by fuzzy pinstripes of nearly bare canvas — which shocked everyone with their dour simplicity when they appeared in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1959.
Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular aart came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular aArt and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular aArt in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular artart.
Opening: «Kerry James Marshall: Mastry» at Met Breuer This mid-career survey, one of the most hotly anticipated New York museum shows of the year, focuses on the work of Kerry James Marshall, the Chicagoan painter whose paintings and drawings, for the past 35 years, have focused on the position of black artists in art history.
«Over the last 20 years, she has been really educating black collectors to step away from focusing on the WPA era,» says Jones, who will have a solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in October.
1987 Black & White: Visual Sonatas, Aion Fine Art, Dallas, TX Recent Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY Succinctly Stated, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA Monotypes II, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Avant Garde In The 80's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Made in New York, NY, Gianfranco Zani Gallery, Turino, Italy Group Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA On Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
MUST - SEE EXHIBITION openings and interesting talks and appearances happening this week in black art: May 19, 2014 @ 7 p.m. Conversations on Art: Dawoud Bey at Whitney Museum New York Images from Dawoud Bey «s «The Birmingham Project» (shown above) are on view at the Whitney Bienniart: May 19, 2014 @ 7 p.m. Conversations on Art: Dawoud Bey at Whitney Museum New York Images from Dawoud Bey «s «The Birmingham Project» (shown above) are on view at the Whitney BienniArt: Dawoud Bey at Whitney Museum New York Images from Dawoud Bey «s «The Birmingham Project» (shown above) are on view at the Whitney Biennial.
The show highlights the contributions of Black artists to American history and how their artworks changed the face of art in America.
AN EXHIBITION POSTER featuring «Bid «Em In / Slave (Angie)» by Barkley Hendricks (1945 - 2017) was produced on the occasion of «Black Fire: A Constant State of Revolution,» a 2015 - 16 group show at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Neb..
Collection, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdaie, FL; travelled to Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL 1981 Drawing Invitational, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY 1981 New Work, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 1981 Artists Books, Metrònom, Barcelona, Spain 1980 Little Books, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY 1980 New York 1980, Banco - Massimo Minini, Brescia, ltaly 1980 Pool Project Documentation, Artists Space, New York, NY 1980 New York Painters, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 1980 Works of Art, Patricia Sneed Gallery, Rockford, IL 1980 Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 1980 Collection of Dr. Milton Brutten and Dr. Helen Herrick, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ 1980 Group Exhibition, Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York, NY 1980 Pool Projects, Wake Forest University, Winston - Salem, NC 1980 Faculty Exhibition, Hillwood Commons Gallery, C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY 1979 Prospectus, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1979 New Wave Painting, The Clocktower, MoMA P.S. 1, New York, NY 1979 Artist's Postcards, Ananas Gallery, Abrau, Switzerland 1979 Poets and Painters, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; traveled to Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Kansas City, MO; La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, CA 1979 14 Painters, Lehman Gallery, CUNY, Bronx, NY 1979 Drawings, Hal Bromm, New York, NY 1979 Summer Show, Hal Bromm, New York, NY 1979 Drawings, Pyramid Gallery, Providence, MA 1978 Detective Show, Gorman Park, Jackson Heights, NY 1978 Works on Paper, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy 1978 Group Exhibition, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy 1978 Group Exhibition, Art - 9, Basel, Switzerland 1978 Black and White on Paper, Nobe Gallery, New York, NY 1978 Paperworks, Galerie Wirz, Milan, Italy 1978 Selections from the Collection, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1978 Artists Books: USA, New Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1977 Fine / Fleishman / Stamm, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY 1977 Painting 75,76,77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; traveled to American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 1977 Book Objects, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1977 A Painting Show, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY 1977 New York Group Show, Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY 1977 Group Exhibition, Art Fiera, Bologna, ltaly 1977 Group Exhibition, Documenta - 6, Kassel, Germany 1977 Collection in Progress, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1977 Ideas — Images, Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Postcards and Other Mail, Jock Truman, New York, NY 1977 Wrapping Paper Invitational, Nobe Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1976 Group Exhibition, Art Fiera, Bologna, Italy 1976 Summer Group, Max Protetch Gallery, Washington D.C. 1976 SoHo and Downtown Manhattan, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 1976 Selections SoHo - Berlin, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark 1976 Works on Paper, Hal Bromm, New York, NY 1976 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1975 Contemporary Reflections 1971 — 1974, AFA; travelling exhibition Spare, Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY 1975 Group Indiscriminate, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY 1975 A Collection in Progress (Herrick - Brutten Collection), The Clocktower, MoMA P.S. 1, New York, NY 1975 Group Exhibition, International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany 1975 Five from SoHo, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 1975 Spare, Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY 1975 Abstraction Alive and Well, SUNY, Potsdam, NY 1975 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1974 Tight and Loose, State University, Albany, NY; travelled to State University, Potsdam, NY 1974 Black as Color, Reed College, Portland, OR 1974 Drawings, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1974 Paperworks, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY 1974 10th Anniversary Exhibition 1964 — 1974, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1974 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1973 Painting in America, Decorative Arts Center, New York, NY 1973 Black Paintings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY 1973 DiDonna / Stamm, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY 1973 Nine New York Artists, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 1973 Recent Acquisitions, Phoenix Museum, Phoenix, AZ 1972 Contemporary Reflections 1971 — 1972, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1971 What's Happening in SoHo, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 1971 Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY 1971 Alumni Show, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 1970 Young Artists: New York 1970, Greenwich, CT
This show of three African - American artists creates a solid counternarrative on general history, art history, black identity and gender identity.
2016 — Invitation, Northern, Southern Gallery, Austin, TX 2014 — A Catalog, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin, TX 2013 — Two Person Exhibition with Jamie Panzer, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin, TX 2013 — Friends and Family, Gallery Black Lagoon, Austin TX 2013 — Oil & Water, Gallery Black Lagoon, Austin TX 2012 — Tenses of Landscape, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 2010 — Scape, Nicole Villeneuve Gallery, Chicago IL 2010 — Journeymaker, 1539 West Haddon, Chicago IL 2010 — Midnite Snacks ‐ Chicago, 1366 Space, Chicago IL 2009 — Big Youth, Corbett Vs. Dempsey, Chicago IL 2008 — Faculty Show, Harrington College of Design, Chicago IL 2008 — Somewhere, Elsewhere, Linda Warren Projects 2007 - 2010 — Art Chicago, Linda Warren Projects 2006 — MFA Show, G2, Chicago IL 2005 — Love 8, SUGS Gallery, Chicago IL 2005 — Nova Young Art Fair, Devening Projects, Chicago IL
They are protesting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and their shortfalls in showing the work of African American artists and hiring African Americans in the same way that the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition that Benny Andrews was one of the co-founders of is protesting the Whitney, is protesting the Met.
Abstraction, New Observations, June 1984, No. 24 1984 Is Abstract Painting Regaining its Popularity by Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 1984 1983 Ted Stamm by Sanford Kwinter, Art In America, January 1983, pp. 121-122 1983 Ted Stamm by Stephen Westfall, Arts Magazine, January 1983, p. 3 1983 Ted Stamm at the Far Turn by William Zimmer, Re-Dact 1 by Peter Frank, Published by Willis Locker and Owens, ISBN 093027900X 1982 Ted Stamm, Art Economist, Volume II, No. 14, December 31, 1982, p. 5 1982 Drawing Invitational 1981 by Geynne Vernet, Arts Magazine, February 1982 1982 Two Unprovincial Shows at the Jersey City Museum by Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, New Jersey supplement, October 10, 1982, p. 28 1981 Ted Stamm by Valentine Tatransky, Arts Magazine, February 1981, pp. 35 - 36 1981 Surely Temple Black by William Zimmer, SoHo Weekly News, February 18, 1981, p. 49 1981 Abstraction with a Relaxed Air by David L. Shirey, The New York Times, March 1, 1981, p. 19 1981 Ted Stamm by Tiffany Bell, Arts Magazine, May 1981, p. 8 1981 From the General to the Particular: Some Thoughts on Abstract Painting by Tiffany Bell, Arts Magazine, June 1981, pp. 120-124 1980 Tre Amerikaner i Skaane by by Sune Nordgren, Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), May 5, 1980 1980 Pool Documentation by Kay Larson, Village Voice, June 2, 1980, p. 85 1980 Jane Highstein and Sensibility Minimalism: A Tissue of Happenstance by Robert Pincus - Witten, Arts Magazine, October 1980 p. 140 1980 La Nouvelle Vogue New Yorkaise est Portee Para La Musie Rock by Daniel Cornu, Tribune De Geneve, December 1980 School's Out by William Zimmer, The SoHo Weekly News, June 11, 1980, p. 61 1980 Old Wine, New Bottles, Bad Year by John Perreault, The SoHo Weekly News, June 18, 1980 1979 Ted Stamm by December Kur, Handelsblatt (Dusseldorf), March 3,1979, p. 21 1979 Entries: Styles of Artists and Critics by Robert Pincus - Witten, Arts Magazine, November 1979, pp. 127 - 28 1979 Where is New York by Peter Frank, ARTnews, November 1979, pp. 59 - 65 1978 Ted Stamm by Tiffany Bell, Arts Magazine, February 1978, pp. 33 - 34 1978 Ted Stamm by Edit De Ak, Artforum, February 1978, pp. 63 - 64 1978 Artful Dodger by Gerald Marzorati, SoHo Weekly News, May 18, 1978, 10 1978 Pittori di New York by Riccardo Guarneri, Visual, April - May 1978, No. 2 - 3, pp. 40 - 43 1978 Ted Stamm at Hal Bromm Gallery by Peter Frank, Village Voice, December 19, 1977, pp. 93, 98 1977 Arts and Leisure Guide by Ann Barry, New York Times, November 27, 1977 1977 Voice Choices by Ali Anderson, Village Voice, December 12, 1977, p. 59 1977 New Museum at the New School by Peter Frank, Village Voice, December 19, 1977, p. 98 1976 Ted Stamm by Barbara Catoir, Das Kunstwerk, January 1976, p. 64 1976 Alternative Arts Spaces: One to one politics for the avant - garde by Stephen Reichard, New York Downtown Manhattan, Akademie Der Kunste - Berliner Festwochen, September 1976, p. 249 1975 Reviews by Susan Heineman, Artforum, March 1975, pp. 62 - 63 1975 Artists Space by Trudie Grace, Art Journal, Summer 1975, XXXIV / 4, pp. 323 - 326.
Grey concrete, watery resins and bland planks laid the foundations of conceptual art: Alex Katz, become numbingly ubiquitous, is shown here as pioneering a new way of seeing through the flat surfaces of a portrait rendered in stark black, grey and white.
They include Kelley Walker's exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum, right next door to the Pulitzer, which displayed sexualized pictures of black women and historical images of police brutality against black people; Dana Schutz showed a painting of Emmett Till's mutilated body in the current Whitney Biennial.
As the first black curator of the Whitney Museum, she organized landmark shows, such as «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art» in 1994, that now seem strikingly prescblack curator of the Whitney Museum, she organized landmark shows, such as «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art» in 1994, that now seem strikingly prescBlack Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art» in 1994, that now seem strikingly prescient.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is celebrating the work of black women working in modern and contemporary abstraction, including Alma Thomas, Jennie C. Jones, Howardena Pindell, and Mary Lovelace O'Neal (shown above).
After multiple short trips to Los Angeles — during which she visited historic locations and architecturally significant buildings and met with actors and artists who appealed to her interests in noir and L.A. iconography — Ruilova shot Meet the Eye (2009), starring actor Karen Black and artist Raymond Pettibon, on a soundstage in Silver Lake, which we are showing in our annual presentation, Art in the Auditorium 2.
The artist's seemingly distinct activities — the severe black abstractions, the prolific and caustic social and political graphic work, and the color slides of historical monuments, temples, and buildings that showed his equally prolific world travels and keen sense of photographic record keeping — were received in coexistence by jubilant viewers, especially young artists and art students (during the artist's lifetime it would have been career suicide to show all simultaneously practiced sides together).
Installation view, Rodney McMillian: The Black Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
Since she joined the MCA in 2011, she has organized numerous highly acclaimed exhibitions including the group show The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now in 2015; Homebodies in 2013, and Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White in 2012.
The artist currently has three solo exhibitions on view at East Coast museums: «Views of Main Street» at the Studio Museum in Harlem, through June 26, 2016; «The Black Show» at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, through August 14, 2016; and «Landscape Paintings» at MoMA PS1, through August 29, 2016.
In fact, let's start using that as a category; call all the group shows of art by all or mostly men «Men's Art,» the same way we do when it comes to «Women's Art,» «Black Art,» «Outsider Art,» and all the reart by all or mostly men «Men's Art,» the same way we do when it comes to «Women's Art,» «Black Art,» «Outsider Art,» and all the reArt,» the same way we do when it comes to «Women's Art,» «Black Art,» «Outsider Art,» and all the reArt,» «Black Art,» «Outsider Art,» and all the reArt,» «Outsider Art,» and all the reArt,» and all the rest.
Exhibited: The Southern New England Invitiational Art Exhibition, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 1978; National Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, summer, 1979; Barkley L. Hendricks, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 20 - March 30, 1980; Black Male - Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 10, 1994 - March 5, 1995, the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, April 25 - June 18, 1995; Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, February 7 - July 13, 2008, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, May 9 - August 15, 2009, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 18 - December 20, 2009, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, January 23, 2010 - April 18, 2010, with museum labels on the painting back.
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