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I like art. Our house has lots of tiny collection of naïf art from Haiti and Nicaragua, and we have contemporary art from Peru and Colombia in a storage garage in Delaware. But we can’t afford contemporary Chinese art. It’s... ...full story at Tim Johnson

from Tim Johnson on Mon, Oct 15 2007

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