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A collaboration between renowned glass artists Dale Chihuly and Pino Signoretto, the masterpiece was a tangle of flames and sea creatures.— statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories
My favourite definition, which comes from the great American poet Randall Jarrell's consideration of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead, is that a masterpiece is a work with something wrong with it; which reminds me, tangentially, of how Persian carpet makers always put a mistake into their work, so they will not offend God by presuming to rival His perfection.— theatre notes
THE HAGUE, Netherlands _ The Netherlands's national museum said that American bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. has launched legal action challenging the ownership of a masterpiece from the Dutch Golden Age.

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