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Damage feared to underwater sites off the coast of Libya, after Gulf disaster. Pictured, Underwater relics at risk? (Photo: Jonathan S. Blair/National Geographic/Getty Images) From News, Issue 216 (September 2010).
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Fair Oasis Lithuanian artist Zilvinas Kempinas created a stir at Art Basel 41 with his floating tape sculpture Oasis generating an odd calm in the busy fair. Kempinas has been fascinated by such delicate sculptures from an early age and was encouraged by his parents who didn't seem to mind his penchant for interior re-decorating. Interview by Jean Wainwright. >>>

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All artists, including great masters such as Caravaggio, had, and had to have, an ambivalent relationship towards the religious and political establishment.