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Why Didn’t Jared and Ivanka Report Their Art Collection?

Is it that they take art so seriously, they don’t think of it as money?
Source: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

Two weeks ago, Ivanka Trump caught some alone time in Yayoi Kusama’s . Staged at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the piece is a living room , a white-out room filled with all-white furniture and personal effects, that visitors are invited to cover over with tiny colorful dot stickers. The piece is mesmerizing, an Instagram sensation; a contemporary art lover like Trump wasn’t likely to miss out on the hottest ticket) in town.

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