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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 197104,
                    "title": "The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art",
                    "description": "<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).",
                    "opening_date": "2011-03-27T00:00:00"
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                {
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                    "title": "Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).",
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        "did_you_know": "Takaki Seiu is a professor emeritus of Daito Bunka University.",
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        "description": "These three characters, read from right to left, convey the meaning that people prefer to follow an individual who possesses a considerate and warm personality\u2014much like clouds follow a dragon, a motif found in classical East Asian visual culture and literature.",
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                "citation": "So\u0306n, Su\u0306ng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
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