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The Week in Art
9-16 May 2023 |
Openings, events, auctions |
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Berlin
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Wednesday 10 |
Under The Mango Tree: Amit Pasricha: Earth, Water, Air, Life. Managing Hope an exhibition surveying the past twenty years of Pasrichas’ photography of India as a society |
opening reception |
Dubai
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Saturday 13 |
Perrotin Dubai: Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux |
opens |
Geneva
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Thursday 11 |
Fabienne Levy: Ben Arpéa: As the days go by |
opens |
Goldau
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Friday 12 |
Kutlesa: Alexis Jang |
opens |
London
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Tuesday 9 |
Galerie Boulakia: Modern Masters |
opens |
Modernity: London Craft Week 2023 – In the Spotlight: Sandra Davolio Davolio combines nature and Etruscan traditions into delicate, biomorphic pieces |
opens |
Tiwani Contemporary at Cromwell Place: Your Presence Does Not Escape Me: Charmaine Watkiss, Delita Martin and Tessa Mars a group presentation looking at the importance of drawing to the three artists, while exploring shared themes of spirituality, mythology and Black womanhood |
opening reception |
Wednesday 10 |
A.I.: Hyphenate with Amy Bernstein, Betsy Bradley and Weixin Quek Chong |
opens |
Alison Jacques: Jane Dickson: Fist of Fury in her first solo exhibition with the gallery, historical, new and recent paintings from Dickson’s acclaimed “Times Square” series – paintings of late-night signage |
opening reception |
Thursday 11 |
Gathering: Soojin Kang: To Be You, Whoever You Are using the ritualistic actions of weaving, knotting, winding and unwinding to explore the sculptural possibilities of textiles, Kang transubstantiates raw materials into structures that retain unmistakeable traces of their biotic origins |
opening reception |
Grosvenor Gallery: Shibu Natesan: Plein Air Views of India and London “no matter where I was in the world, I would step outside with my paints and materials and paint as if I were touched by a force that gave me an inner realization of the reason for living” – Natesan |
private view |
Pontone Gallery: Yigal Ozeri: London Stories hyperreal, figurative paintings documenting contemporary street life |
opens |
Zabludowicz Collection: Invites: 00 Zhang the Chinese born London-based artist works in sculpture, installation, CGI animations and interactive virtual environments |
private view |
Friday 12 |
Cob Gallery: Julien Saudubray: Pion Soleil the French artist’s UK solo exhibition debut communicates human desire to control universal laws, while celebrating the beauty that arises from relinquishing control and embracing chance |
opens |
Sotheby’s London: Photographs auction: Fri 12 – Thu 18 May (viewing: Wed 10 – Thu 18 May) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s London: CHINA / 5000 YEARS auction: Fri 12 – Fri 19 May |
auction starts |
Saturday 13 |
BEERS London: Sabrina Bockler: Menagerie Bockler’s practice is a way to “reclaim the narrative of women’s contributions to the field of art and to encourage a reexamination of traditional gender assumptions surrounding labor and its division” |
opens |
BEERS London: Olivia de Bona: Le Panache “I am looking to timeless spaces… in-between places” – de Bona about her debut solo exhibition |
opens |
Carl Kostyál: Oli Epp: Shampoo |
private view |
Carl Kostyál: Mia Faithfull: Obedience |
private view |
Los Angeles
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Saturday 13 |
Louis Stern Fine Arts: Raymond Jonson: Medium and Message an exhibition of works from the founder of the Transcendental Painting Group |
opens |
Melbourne
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Saturday 13 |
Tolarno Galleries: A&A: Florescence |
opening reception |
Tolarno Galleries: Kieren Karritpul: Texere: New Woven Surfaces on Fabric |
opening reception |
Milan
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Thursday 11 |
A arte Invernizzi: Philippe Decrauzat: Feedback Loop the gallery’s first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist, who works to “push perception beyond the boundaries of image” |
opening reception |
Monaco
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Wednesday 10 |
Hauser & Wirth Monaco: John Chamberlain. The Poetics of Scale curated by Tanya Barson, early poetry alongside sculptures from the 80s, highlighting Chamberlain’s approach to materials and scale |
opens |
Munich
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Friday 12 |
Walter Storms Galerie: Cordy Ryman: Collecting Sparks over 1,000 works showcase room installations by the renowned New York artist |
opening reception |
New York
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Tuesday 9 |
Sotheby’s New York: Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas auction: Tue 9 – Tue 23 May |
auction starts |
Wednesday 10 |
galerie gmurzynska: 30 Years of Exhibiting Karl Lagerfeld |
opens |
Skarstedt: Andy Warhol: The Late Paintings late paintings from 1976-1986 highlighting a number of iconic series which came to define the final and one of the most prolific decades of Warhol’s life |
opening reception |
Thursday 11 |
Christie’s New York: Masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection auction: Thu 11 (viewing: Sat 29 April – Thu 11 May) |
auction |
Christie’s New York: 20th Century Evening Sale auction: Thu 11 (viewing: Sat 29 April – Thu 11 May) |
auction |
Hauser & Wirth 69th Street: Cathy Josefowitz. Forever Young the gallery’s inaugural solo exhibition of Josefowitz is a survey of her career and includes works exhibited publicly for the first time |
opens |
Helwaser Gallery: Veronique Cauchefer: Emoi entre Deux Murs |
opens |
Hollis Taggart: André Hemer: Troposphere “Troposphere corresponds to the way in which I see our way of being and seeing materiality in the contemporary age; where the constant transaction between digital and physical materiality is what constitutes a new way of seeing (and being) in the world” |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong & Co.: Samuel Levi Jones: Conscious Intuition featuring works composed of pulped encyclopedias, law and medical textbooks, and US flags, the exhibition critiques authoritative systems |
opening reception |
Marlborough: Schema: World as Diagram occupying two floors of the gallery, the exhibition brings together over fifty artists whose works engage in diagrammatic ways of thinking |
opening reception |
Marlborough: Alice Aycock: Works on Paper large-scale drawings referencing waves, wind turbulence, turbines, gyroscopes, and vortexes of energy |
opening reception |
Montague Contemporary: Marc Standing: Land’s End in Standing’s debut show in New York, new mixed media works combine folklore and the materials and colour palettes from his travels |
opening reception |
Friday 12 |
Bortolami: Joe Ray: Inside Out Ray’s first solo exhibition in New York comprises three bodies of work representing the breadth of his practice: Nebula paintings; cast resin sculptures; and photographs |
opening reception |
The Upstairs at Bortolami: Madeline Hollander: Hydro Parade: Watercolors watercolors produced using water sourced from the natural spring beneath the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which runs alongside the Old Croton Aqueduct, the waterway that once supplied New York City |
opening reception |
Christie’s New York: Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale auction: Fri 12 (viewing: Sat 29 April – Fri 12 May) |
auction |
Fleiss-Vallois: Galerie 1900-2000: Air de New York taking its title from the Duchamp readymade, an exhibition focussing on the artist alongside Francis Picabia – two artists who bridged Paris and New York, and whose importance to 20th-century art is unquestionable |
opening reception |
Fleiss-Vallois: Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Upcycling works by signatories of Pierre Restany’s 1960 “Constitutive Declaration of New Realism” manifesto, incuding Arman, César, Gérard Deschamps, Raymond Hains, Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques Villeglé |
opening reception |
Fridman Gallery: Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Cake new drawings, a site-specific thread installation, and a selection of early video works in Ogunji’s first solo exhibition in New York |
opening reception |
GRIMM: Louise Giovanelli: Soothsay new large-scale paintings from the artist’s ongoing series of curtains, alongside a new series of paintings of an appropriated 1970s film still of a young woman in a moment of spiritual reverie |
opens |
GRIMM: Tommy Harrison: Tone Cluster new works showing Harrison’s interest in the process of constructing and collapsing the painted image, in the Manchester-based artist’s first solo exhibition in the US and first with the gallery |
opens |
James Cohan, 52 Walker St: Federico Herrero in his latest paintings, Herrero turns his gaze inwards to map a topography of memory that expresses his own intimate relationship with the world around him, harnessing the emotional weight of color to express evolving psychological states |
opens |
Marian Goodman Gallery: Gabriel Orozco “traces of bodies in action and works made in relation to his environment” |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York: Nina Simone Childhood Home: Benefit Auction Co-Presented by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and Pace Gallery | Hosted by Sotheby’s auction: Fri 12 – Mon 22 May |
auction starts |
Saturday 13 |
Christie’s New York: Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Sale auction: Sat 13 (viewing: Sat 29 April – Sat 13 May) |
auction |
Christie’s New York: Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale auction: Sat 13 (viewing: Sat 29 April – Sat 13 May) |
auction |
Fridman Gallery: Wura-Natasha Ogunji: Cake |
talk |
Gagosian 976 Madison Avenue: Donald Judd across the gallery’s 976 and 980 Madison Avenue spaces, fifteen Judd objects – in aluminum, galvanized iron, colored plexiglass and plywood – alongside paired woodcuts of rectangles and grids |
opens |
Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue: Donald Judd across the gallery’s 976 and 980 Madison Avenue spaces, fifteen Judd objects – in aluminum, galvanized iron, colored plexiglass and plywood – alongside paired woodcuts of rectangles and grids |
opens |
Luhring Augustine Chelsea: Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen “I found it a daunting task to choose just a few images from Lee Friedlander’s vast career. Where to start…?” – Coen |
opens |
Monday 15 |
Christie’s New York: 21st Century Evening Sale auction: Mon 15 (viewing: Sat 29 April – Mon 15 May) |
auction |
Tuesday 16 |
Sotheby’s New York: Modern Evening Auction auction: Tue 16 (viewing: Fri 5 – Tue 16 May) |
auction |
Sotheby’s New York: The Mo Ostin Collection Evening Auction auction: Tue 16 (viewing: Sat 6 – Tue 16 May) |
auction |
Paris
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Wednesday 10 |
Galerie Lelong & Co.: Mildred Thompson: L’appel de la lumière an artist who utilized a modernist visual language to interpret natural and cosmic phenomena, this exhibition celebrates Thompson’s representations of light and energy |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong & Co.: Christine Safa: La forme rêvée d’une forme vue Safa’s paintings, with their juxtaposition of colours and forms, bear witness to a distant and nostalgic memory and aim to convey recalled feelings |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong & Co.: Arnulf Rainer: Res Arcana considered a pioneer of the Art Informel movement, at the turn of the 1960s Rainer developed the practice of Übermalung (overpainting or overcovering), that was to become in many ways his signature |
opening reception |
Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon: Christine Safa: La forme rêvée d’une forme vue Safa’s paintings, with their juxtaposition of colours and forms, bear witness to a distant and nostalgic memory and aim to convey recalled feelings |
opening reception |
Galerie Marian Goodman: Michaela Eichwald: hirnlose problemlösung gerade verworfen new paintings and works on paper which suggest layers of private narrative that intentionally elude definitive explication |
opening reception |
Saturday 13 |
Art: Concept: Nina Childress: Unisexe “no scenes of concerts, backstage, these rockers and groupies are isolated, each one portrayed on his/her canvas, in a music-poster situation” – Laurent Goumarre |
opens |
Rome
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Thursday 11 |
T293: Dylan Rose Rheingold: Lost In the Dress Up Bin Rheingold’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in Rome is a collection of drawn, painted and printed works on canvas as well as wooden panels, examining personal and collective narratives around the psyche of adolescence, fantasy and otherness |
opening reception |
Friday 12 |
Gagosian: Alex Israel: Fins “Israel is known for his exploration of the visual culture of Los Angeles, and this exhibition continues this exploration with an exciting new approach” – ChatGPT |
opening reception |
Salzburg
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Saturday 13 |
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art: Ferro. A Poetry Moment |
opens |
Seoul
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Wednesday 10 |
Barakat Contemporary: Michael Rakowitz: The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Kalhu, Room F, Southeast Entrance; Room S, Southwest Entrance) in his first solo exhibition in Korea Rakowitz focusses on the lost cultural heritage of Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion |
pens |
Thursday 11 |
Barakat Contemporary: Michael Rakowitz: The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Kalhu, Room F, Southeast Entrance; Room S, Southwest Entrance) |
talk |
Shanghai
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Friday 12 |
Almine Rech: Jenny Brosinski: TOO FAT TO FLY new paintings and works on paper by a prominent figure from a new generation of contemporary abstract painters in Europe |
opening reception |
Almine Rech: Oliver Beer: Recompositions: Night Revels Beer’s first solo exhibition with the gallery “bathes us in rich material culture and multi-layered temporalities” – Damien Zhang |
opening reception |
Tokyo
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Friday 12 |
Perrotin Tokyo: Gabriel Rico: The propagation of Teurári “the most recent body of work by Gabriel Rico, an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, coalesces non-western knowledge of first nation, or indigenous, people with the intention to build a stronger connection with nature” – Andrew Ütt |
opens |
Vienna
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Thursday 11 |
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Maximilian Prüfer: First Alphabet “visitors are invited to a blacked-out exhibition space to scrutinize the impact of rainfall on Naturantypie, the specially coated paper Prüfer has developed” – Nadine Khalil |
opening reception |
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Irena Posner: Best In Show Posner’s works enter the realm of allegory, playfulness and humour to explore power structures through animal discourses, selective breeding and fetish |
opening reception |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing |
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Barcelona
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Saturday 13 |
Galería Marlborough: Mark Amerika. Remixing Reality. 1993-2023 |
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Boissy-le-Châtel
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Sunday 14 |
Galleria Continua Les Moulins: Sislej Xhafa: bride on soil |
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Galleria Continua Les Moulins: Michelangelo Pistoletto: 60 ans d’identités et d’altérités |
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Geneva
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Saturday 13 |
Pace, Geneva: Kylie Manning: You Into Me, Me Into You |
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Hong Kong
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Wednesday 10 |
Hauser & Wirth: Rashid Johnson. Nudiustertian |
virtual visit |
Lausanne
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Saturday 13 |
Fabienne Levy: Vanessa Safavi: I feed my dreams slime at night |
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London
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Wednesday 10 |
Serpentine South Gallery: Grenfell by Steve McQueen |
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Saturday 13 |
Addis Fine Art: Collaboration with Guns & Rains: Soft Power |
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ATLAS Gallery: Frauke Eigen: Photographs 2000-2023 |
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Bermondsey Project Space: Thomas Widerberg: Silent Landscapes |
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Gagosian Davies St: Richard Wright |
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Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Stanley Whitney: There Will Be Song |
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Gazelli Art House: Jann Haworth: Out of the Rectangle |
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Gazelli Art House: Libby Heaney: Ent-er the Garden of Forking Path |
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Hamiltons: Mostly Nude |
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MAMOTH: Henry Curchod: Trouble on the Event Horizon |
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Thaddaeus Ropac: Lee Bul |
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Thaddaeus Ropac: Markus Schinwald: Extensions and Monuments |
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Thaddaeus Ropac: Rona Pondick: Selected Work 1998–2022 |
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Victoria Miro: Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts |
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Sunday 14 |
Saatchi Yates: BIJIJOO |
virtual visit |
Tate Modern: A Year in Art: Australia 1992 |
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The Gallery of Everything: Full of Days. Hermione Burton & Andy Holden |
virtual visit |
Los Angeles
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Saturday 13 |
GAVLAK: Luke O’Halloran: Going, going, gone. |
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L.A. Louver: Gajin Fujita: True Colors |
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L.A. Louver: Dion Johnson: Color Play |
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L.A. Louver: Kienholz: Exchange of Values |
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Monterrey
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Friday 12 |
Colector Poniente: Amor Muñoz: Tactile Translations |
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Naples
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Saturday 13 |
Alfonso Artiaco: Michel François |
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New York
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Wednesday 10 |
James Cohan, 48 Walker St: Elias Sime: TIGHTROPE: አረንጔዴ ነው (IT IS GREEN) |
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Saturday 13 |
Cheim & Read: Peter Shear: Following Sea |
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Sunday 14 |
Friedrichs Pontone: Richard Harrison: Elemental |
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Friedrichs Pontone: Nature & Now: Asian Art in Focus |
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Paris
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Friday 12 |
A&R Fleury: Victor Vasarely: Une autre dimension |
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Saturday 13 |
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Tomi Ungerer: Tomi The Alchemist – The Magnum Opus |
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Galerie Marian Goodman: Cristina Iglesias: Monotypes on Copper and Paper |
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Salzburg
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Tuesday 9 |
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art: An Intimate Distance |
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Venice
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Saturday 13 |
Patricia Low Venezia: Amy Bessone: Our Secret Garden |
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Zürich
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Friday 12 |
Lullin + Ferrari: Sebastian Utzni: The Logic of the System |
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Lullin + Ferrari: La Force des Choses |
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Saturday 13 |
Hauser & Wirth: Berlinde De Bruyckere |
virtual visit |
Hauser & Wirth Bahnhofstrasse 1: David Smith. Four Sculptures |
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Daily Diary New VRs Bookshop |
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