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                    "title": "Year in Review: 1979",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).",
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        "description": "Haunting overtones of childhood\u2019s lost innocence infuse Spain\u2019s dreamlike paintings, as in this example of a young girl with her pets amid a sparse moonlit interior. With their geometrically stylized faces, rigid bodies, and marionette limbs, the artist\u2019s human figures were inspired by her love of antique dolls.",
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