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DRESDEN.- German visual artist Gerhard Richter stands in front of his installation "5 Scheiben" (5 disks) during a preview of the show "Gerhard Richter - Strips and Glass" on September 13, 2013 at the Albertinum Galerie Neue Meister museum in Dresden, eastern Germany. The exhibition running from September 14, 2013 to January 5, 2014 comprises three rooms of new works by Gerhard Richter from his current series of strip pictures and glass objects, most of which were created specifically for this show. AFP PHOTO / DPA / HENDRIK SCHMIDT.
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LENS.- This picture shows people queueing at the entrance of the Louvre-Lens museum in Lens, northern France. The Louvre museum's stock that is presently under the museum, in a space liable to flooding, will be transferred near the Louvre-Lens museum, announced on September 13, 2013 the French Culture minister Aurelie Filipetti. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN.
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LONDON.- A member of staff poses next to a sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti entitled 'Tete de Diego au col roule' at Christie's auction house in central London. Forming part of the 'A Dialogue Through Art: Works from The Jan Krugier Collection' sale in New York on 4-5 November 2013, the scuplture is expected to fetch between GBP 3.8m-5.7m (4.5m-6.8m euros/6m-9m USD) at auction. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT.
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PARIS.- French Culture minister Aurelie Filipetti (C) listens to head of the Guimet museum for Asian art Sophie Makariou (L) as she visits the museum during the installation of an exhibition dedicated to Angkor, on September 13, 2013 in Paris. AFP PHOTO THOMAS SAMSON.
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LONDON.- A 30-metre chandelier by Canadian design company Bocci is pictured in the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London on September 13, 2013. The work forms part of the London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert exhibition. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT.
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MANNHEIM.- Austrian artist Andre Heller is pictured on September 13, 2013 in Mannheim, western Germany during rehearsal of his new show "Africa,Africa" AFP PHOTO / DPA/ UWE ANSPACH.
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NEW YORK.- A woman takes photos of an exhibition of Michael Shvo's new public art program located at a former Getty gas station titled "Sheep Station," featuring 25 of late French artist Francois-Xavier Lalanne's sheep sculptures on September 13, 2013 in New York . Sheep Station will showcase 25 of Lalanne's rare sheep and marks the largest collection of its kind to be shown in an outdoor setting. It will run through October 20, 2013. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY CLARY.
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LIMA.- People pass by jungle-related art on display during the gastronomic fair of Mistura, the largest in Latin America, which opened doors next to the Pacific Ocean on September 12, 2013 in Lima. The fair showcases about 130 restaurants and expects to attract over half a million visitors in the ten days it will run, aiming to promote food as a tool for sustainable development, social inclusion and cultural identity. The Peruvian food industry could generate income for the country by about 7,000 million dollars in 2013, according to the Chamber of Commerce of Lima. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES.
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MADRID.- A model presents a creation by Juanjo Oliva during the 2014 Spring/Summer Fashion Week in Madrid on September 13, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ DANI POZO.
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KATHA.- This picture shows Myanmar Reverend Daniel Say Htan standing in the local Anglican church in Katha, a small trading post on the banks of the Irrawady river, 13 hours north of Mandalay by train, where British writer George Orwell is thought to have lived in the 1920s. A group of artists in a remote town in northern Myanmar has launched a campaign to preserve the house thought to belong to British writer George Orwell in Katha. Katha and the house lived in by Orwell, known then as Eric Blair, were immortalised in the author's first novel, Burmese Days. AFP PHOTO/William DAVIES