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    Thornton, Sarah. “The Studio Visit” en Seven days in the art world: New York, W. W. Norton, 2009, 180-217.

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    Thornton, Sarah. “The Studio Visit” en Seven days in the art world: New York, W. W. Norton, 2009, 180-217.

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    3.6 The Studio Visit.

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    Thornton, Sarah. “The Studio Visit” en Seven days in the art world: New York, W. W. Norton, 2009, 180-217.

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    |2 S 3 3 B a © & B ‘04 Ax. The glossy red marble lobby ofthe Westin Toky, like most hotels in the city is dated with stewards who bow thet heads as guests wall by, Tim Blum and Jeff Poe, whom I last saw in Basel, stand by the font doors with their ats folded their fet planted fly apart. Tey glare at me through their Ray-Bans when I arrive a few minutes late, then we set off on our daytrip to see an important new wore For seven years the Los Angeles dealers have heen observing ‘the atistc evolution of Takashi Murakamn’s Oral Buddha. Isl needs to be covered in platinum leaf, but the sculpture, with the budget of a small independent Hollywood film, is otherwise finished. The eighteenoottall self-portraits siting in afoundy {in Toyama, an industrial town on the northwest coast of Japan siting an audience, “Haneda Airport, pleas,” says Blum influent Japanese. The taxis polished black on the outside with the conventional white lace seat covers onthe inside. The driver is wearing white gloves and a surgial face mask. He loks ike an extra in a bioterrorism movie, but here its the sartorial norm for those with colds and pemeeereereret ree ee ee "PratonJomte shure oman da toward th cs Porshe hisoxd without tgif behest S0GGe dee ese eee ese ee tee tt eeeeRieeeeeeeereene. ‘woliter bottle. “Oval has enormous significance to us, and not ist because it’ the gallerys biggest-budget production to date When Blum & Poe opened in 1994, the partners sold Cuban

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