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As James Turrell prepares to unveil "As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace" in Denmark, a superyacht embarks from Monaco as a "traveling private members’ club at sea" featuring works by Marina Abramović, while Julian Charrière invites visitors in Tasmania to experience 2.4-billion-year-old oxygen.
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Following its restitution to the descendants of its original Jewish owner, the Georg Kolbe fountain, with its complex colonial iconography, commanded €4m at Villa Grisebach, establishing a new auction benchmark for the artist.
Elizabeth Weiss: “There is a real danger we’re going to lose skills essential to medicine”
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