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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but friends call us SFMOMA. We're one of the largest museums of modern + contemporary art in the United States.

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Right now #SendMeSFMOMA is only available in the US, but the response has been so positive globally, we're looking to extend its reach! 🌎📲
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👏 Interrupting your feed to share one of the coolest tattoos spotted in our galleries. Thank you Instagram user yessiink! We share your love for Diego Rivera's "The Flower Carrier" (1935).
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We couldn't resist some art history humor on #NationalTellAJokeDay , thanks @DesignCrack ! #duchamp 😆
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Opening September 4th, the world premiere of 𝙅𝙤𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡 features over 80 distinguished works spanning the artist’s career.
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#SendMeSFMOMA broke the internet 🎨📲
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Explore the work and life of Sol LeWitt here at SFMOMA with a new immersive app developed by the Sol LeWitt Estate + @microsoft . Download the app + prepare to be transported.
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It's all about finding the angle that's juuust right 👌
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"A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience." -Mark Rothko Born Markus Rothkowitz on this day in 1903. Mark Rothko's family emigrated from Russia in 1913 and settled in Portland, Oregon. In 1923, Rothko moved to New York where he discovered his love of painting.
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“This painting dances.” - artist Stanley Whitney on Joan Mitchell’s “Sans neige” (1969)
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In recognition of the #OaklandFire tragedy, SFMOMA will be free tomorrow from 6-9pm. Come reflect, mourn, and heal with those you love.
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WE ARE BACK!!!!! #NewSFMOMA
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🎨 Who was Joan Mitchell? Let’s take a closer look at the artist's life.
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❤️Sargent Johnson's enduringly moving "Mother and Child," for #MothersDay . The Bay Area artist made this drawing of a mother's protective embrace almost a century ago, in 1932.
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Our friends at @MuseumModernArt are also helping folks #MuseumFromHome . 👇
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Sharing these #SaturdayVibes with our friends far and wide! Rest and relaxation goals courtesy of Henri Matisse #MuseumFromHome 🎨Henri Matisse. "Goldfish and Sculpture." 1912. © 2020 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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It's official! The #NewSFMOMA opens MAY 14, 2016! #SaveTheDate
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We join the art world in mourning the loss of dear friend and esteemed artist Wayne Thiebaud.
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🎉 Happy Birthday, #MarkRothko ! Rothko was born #OnThisDay in 1903.
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"A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience."- Mark Rothko [No. 14, 1960, 1960] #WednesdayWisdom
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🌁 No San Francisco summer would be complete without @karlthefog Photographer Pirkle Jones captured this scene of fog over Twin Peaks back in 1955 before Sutro Tower was built in 1973. Warm up at the museum during the long-weekend — We are open today from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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"It turns out that once you start looking for something, it's everywhere"-Christian Marclay #CVA16
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🏀 Come behind the scenes with @paigebueckers1 ! Watch as the UConn basketball star plays the lead in the "Night at the Museum" video for our upcoming exhibition "Get in the Game" and answers a few of our questions along the way.
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Kay Sage was not inclined to explain her paintings. When asked about one of her works, the artist famously that she knew “nothing of [its] origin except that I painted it.”
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Joan Mitchell named this painting “To the Harbormaster” (1957) in honor of her friend + poet Frank O’Hara.
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When we say Art is for everyone, we mean it! Zubat loves Richard Serra, who knew. #PokemonGO
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#HBD to #MarkRothko , born #onthisday in 1903 🎉 Rothko once said that "pictures must be miraculous,” and we think his work is exactly that
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"This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat." —Agnès Varda. Wishing a happy birthday to Agnès Varda, who was born #onthisday in 1928. We could use her infectious (srsly, no pun intended) joy these days, but we're glad to have her films. #Agn èsVarda + @JRart
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“I don’t close my eyes and hope for the best. If I can get into the act of painting, and be free in the act, then I want to know what my brush is doing.” - Joan Mitchell Take a look at 8 of Mitchell’s paintings with musings from our exhibition curators
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"It takes a long time to become young" wise words from Pablo Picasso, born #onthisday in 1881🎈 #HBD [Pablo Picasso, Self-Portrait, 1906]
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Happy birthday, #RoyLichtenstein ! Lichtenstein was born #onthisday in 1923.
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🎉 Diego Rivera's "Pan American Unity" (1940) mural opened TODAY in the free Roberts Family Gallery!
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A favorite install shot during our closure. We sure love you, Frida! #newsfmoma #fridakahlo
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👒 Today is #NationalHatDay and what better way to celebrate than with Henri Matisse's "Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat)" (1908)! See it in our free Floor 2 galleries.
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🐾 We are pawsitively thrilled that you're enjoying our free Floor 2 galleries! Check out our 2022 SECA Art Award exhibition and see some favorite's in our collection, including Mark Rothko's "No. 14" (1960). Learn about service animals + accessibility:
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It is *always* an honor to present Richard Mayhew's luminescent landscapes in our galleries, and Saturday had us doubly honored + humbled that he + his wife, Rosemary, stopped by for a visit on his 97th birthday. #Honored (x97)
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Going into pride weekend with amazing news! ❤️💛💚💙💜 #LoveWins http://t.co/9zz8NHHdQK
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A quality moment, featuring Elizabeth Murray's brushy strokes and swathes of paint.
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"Diego Rivera's America" opens today. Explore more than 150 works by the artist in our exhibition on Floor 4. Reserve tickets at the link:
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"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." - Georgia O'Keeffe
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#HBD to Edvard Munch, born #otd in 1863 "I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love." [Self-Portrait, 1886]
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It's the longest night of the year. Happy Solstice! 💫 Artist Julian Charrière has spent years at the Earth's remote and hostile polar regions, exploring humanity’s connection with these otherworldly environments. Embrace the darkness in "Erratic" on Floor 7.
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Joan Mitchell created “No Birds” (1987-88), as a response to Vincent van Gogh’s “Wheatfield with Crows” (1890).​ 🔗 Listen to our audio guide at the link to learn more:
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“I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.” - Joan Mitchell 🔗Dive into eight of Mitchell's masterful paintings, with insight from exhibition curators: 📍 Journey through Mitchell’s works on Floor 5.
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How a modern + contemporary art museum celebrates #PiDay 🍰 [Wayne Thiebaud, Pies, 1961]
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"This was my Paris." - Lee Mullican, on San Francisco Mullican painted "Evening Intersection" in 1949, a few years after arriving in the city. Bursting with energy, the composition is one of many that reflect the artist's guiding interest in the cosmos.
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One of the 1st works in our collection: #DiegoRivera ’s "The Flower Carrier" is back home! #HeritageMW #MuseumWeek
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“Filmmaking is an intuition, it’s like a sound, it’s a hint, a color, a movement. It’s not there to teach people.”-Claire Denis More from #ClaireDenis #femalefilmmakerfriday
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We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of #RobertIndiana . Our thoughts are with his friends and family. We will forever feel the impact of his LOVE. [Robert Indiana, Love, 1966-1999]
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BRB showing our favorite artwork to our hair stylist Our visitor @melinaselverston is giving us all of the colorful hair inspo seen here with Henri Matisse's "Femme au chapeau (Woman with a hat)" (1905). See Matisse's work in our free Floor 2 galleries this long weekend.
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♥️ [Eugène Atget, Notre-Dame, 1923]
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After hours at the museum with basketball phenom @paigebueckers1 . We won't forget it.🤩 Experience the excitement, passion, and intensity that unites the worlds of sports and art in our expansive exhibition "Get in the Game." On view starting Oct 19:
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@TJCruda Do we have a Marcel Duchamp in our midst?
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Thank you @Janefonda for visiting "Diego Rivera's America!" "Portrait of Frances Ford Seymour and Frances de Villers Brokaw" (1941) depicts Frances Ford Seymour, wife of actor Henry Fonda + mother of Jane + Peter Fonda, with her daughter Frances de Villers Brokaw. See it on FL4.
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It's hot and happy in the #SFPride Parade queue! We're excited to share the big #MuseumsWithPride love today ❤️💛💚💙💜
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How do you move a 60,000-pound mural? Take a behind the scenes look at how we moved Diego Rivera's "Pan American Unity" (1940) from @OfficialCCSF to our museum.
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"A line is a dot that went for a walk."—Paul Klee, born on this day in 1879. 😉
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“I mean by America, the territory included between the two ice barriers of the two poles. A fig for your barriers of wire and frontier guards.” - Diego Rivera​ 🔜 "Diego Rivera's America" opens on July 16. Secure your timed tickets in advance at the link:
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Experience Diego Rivera’s monumental mural "The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on This Continent (Pan American Unity)" (1940).
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After 3 years away, today is THE DAY!! Live-tweeting from the #NewSFMOMA opening ceremony, happening soon!
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"All art is self-portraiture."- @kehindewiley #BlackHistoryMonth #ThursdayThoughts [Kehinde Wiley, Alexander the Great, 2005]
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"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint."-Frida Kahlo Happy birthday to the one and only, Frida Kahlo, born today in 1907. Visit Frida and Diego in the free space on Floor 2. [ #FridaKahlo , Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931]
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"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." - #FridaKahlo #HBD to the artist Frida Kahlo, born #otd in 1907. Join a public tour on Frida Kahlo: Love and Friendship. (P.S. They happen daily!)
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🤔 Can you guess where Richard Diebenkorn's "Cityscape #1 " (1963) is located?
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In the atrium, our install crew gets in position as Alexander Calder's 26-foot mobile, "Untitled," rises! #NewSFMOMA
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"All my paintings are based on emotion. I actually use landscape image as a metaphor for a feeling of time and Illusion." - #RichardMayhew Happy birthday Mayhew! The artist turns 98 today.
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Do these colors remind you of the energy of a busy metropolis? 🌆
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Because today needs this adorable Petaluma farming couple & their pumpkin chairs. [Art Rogers, The Pumpkin People, 1980] #NationalFarmersDay
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Whattup CHUCK CLOSE! In case you're just tuning in we're LIVE from the #NewSFMOMA Art Bash, a party for our artists!
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No secret we love Mondrian. And games. So for your lunch break, play a little MondriPong→
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"Today, with the world facing Covid-19, I feel the necessity to address it with this message." —Yayoi #Kusama , with a message to the whole world via @artnewspaper :
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💙💚 Sundays are meant for Gerhard Richter and really a great outfit.
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Hand lettering for Harrell Fletcher + Miranda July’s #LTLYM , on view when we open! And... there will be karaoke.
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We hope that you find a calm moment like this today🤍 ☕️ Our #MondayMood is brought to you courtesy of Richard Diebenkorn's "Coffee" (1959).
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We turned 86 yesterday! The museum was founded on January 18, 1935. *Thank you* for your support, encouragement + passion over the years, and for loving art with us. ❤️🤍 [photo: Henry Kim]
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Happy Birthday, #PabloPicasso ! The Spanish artist was born #onthisday in 1881.
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Starting today and through Sunday, we're back for round 2. Stay safe everyone!
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Less than one month until Art Bash, the hottest art party of the year! Get your portrait taken as part of @JRart 's Inside Out project & see the debut of JR's The Chronicles of San Francisco. Tickets still available (but selling fast!)→ #ArtBashSFMOMA
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“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”-Mark Rothko #HappyBirthday to the iconic, Mark Rothko. Thank you for continuing to connect, inspire, and challenge us with your art. [ #MarkRothko , William R. Heick, 1949] #HBD #otd #onthisday
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"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best." — Frida Kahlo [ #H éctorGarcía, #FridaKahlo , 1949; © Estate of Héctor García]
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Every square inch of the meticulous (and massive) "Stadia I" (2004) by Julie Mehretu is engaging. Seeking to explore "in-between" spaces, Mehretu creates striking motifs over architectural drawings. 📍 "Stadia I" is on view now on Floor 7, part of "Shifting the Silence."
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"Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art."-Sol LeWitt #NationalBookLoversDay #newsfmoma 📖
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All’s good in the neighborhood! To celebrate #NewSFMOMA , neighboring museums are FREE 5/14!
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"I love dogs, they allow me in my studio. I mean, they own everything." - Joan Mitchell The painting on the left, "Belle Bête" (1973), references one of Mitchell’s many beloved dogs and an area of her Vétheuil property where the dog lived, “Chez Belle Bête.”
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“I have always wanted to give people joy.”-Ellsworth Kelly #NationalComingOutDay 🌈✨ [Spectrum I, 1953]
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"You begin with the possibilities of the material." -R. Rauschenberg [Automobile Tire Print, 1953] #thursdaythoughts
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“I’m interested in the mass and color, the black and white, the edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be.”—Ellsworth Kelly Happy birthday to #EllsworthKelly , born #onthisday in 1923. [Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum I, 1953]
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Immersive + grand, Joan Mitchell’s paintings from the mid-1970s were inspired by the landscape surrounding her home in Vétheuil, France. Each season offered a new detail that she could capture in her canvases.
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"Never let anyone define what you're capable of." -Chuck Close [Agnes, 1998] #tuesdaymotivation #newsfmoma
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Letters are up and we're counting down! 57 more days to go! #NewSFMOMA
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your dad: What is Salvador Dali's favorite breakfast? you: your dad: a bowl of surreal #NationalTellAJokeDay
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🌊 Dive into artist Richard Diebenkorn's "Ocean Park #54 " (1972). Over a period of more than 20 years, Diebenkorn created 145 paintings for his "Ocean Park" series. He began working on the series in 1967, inspired by his Ocean Park neighborhood on the edge of Los Angeles, CA.
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"A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”-Mark Rothko #HBD to the one and only Mark Rothko, born #otd in 1903🎈
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It's official: We're reopening on Sunday, October 4!🎈 The cherry on top? Admission is free through Oct. 18. Our focus is on keeping our visitors + staff safe as we reopen. We can't wait to welcome you back! Stay tuned for info on booking tickets on 👀
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Today's burst of #color brought to you by Edvard Munch's pallet 🎨 #SundayMorning #SummerofMunch
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“Travelling around is a way of finding things which actually find me,” Joan Mitchell explained to critic Irving Sandler in 1957.
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Hello, yes I live by the window now. [ #RichardDiebenkorn , Woman in Profile, 1958, © The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
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Major + majorly heartening! NY's @MuseumModernArt adds the rainbow flag to their design collex→ http://t.co/KdbMkMsOvS http://t.co/oTI0kzacsq
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Installation is HAPPENING! Get an inside look as we unpack the #NewSFMOMA ! Right here→
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🎈 Artist Paul Klee’s dynamic lines + rhythmic patterns have been an inspiration for generations of artists.
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