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        "tombstone": "To Die upon a Kiss, 2011. Fred Wilson (American, b. 1954). Murano glass; overall: 177.8 x 174 x 174 cm (70 x 68 1/2 x 68 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2012.115. \u00a9 Fred Wilson",
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        "title": "To Die upon a Kiss",
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        "technique": "Murano glass",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 177.8 x 174 x 174 cm (70 x 68 1/2 x 68 1/2 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Fred Wilson",
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                    "id": 441481,
                    "title": "Gallery One 2012",
                    "description": "<i>Gallery One 2012</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).",
                    "opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 200636,
                    "title": "Fred Wilson: Works 2004\u20132011",
                    "description": "<i>Fred Wilson: Works 2004\u20132011</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 2012-May 5, 2013).",
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        "did_you_know": "Wilson\u2019s chandeliers are the first black chandeliers ever to be created in the history of Venetian glassmaking.",
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        "description": "\u201cTo die upon a kiss\u201d are the dying words of Othello, the Black general in William Shakespeare\u2019s play <em>Othello</em>, set in the 1500s in Venice, Italy. Long interested in the overlooked histories of the African diaspora and, in this work, people from Africa living in Venice, Fred Wilson began his series of sculptural chandeliers in 2003 when he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale (the premiere international survey of contemporary art occurring every two years). Like the complex histories they reference, these works are embedded with seeming contradiction: they are heavy yet fragile, dark yet luminous. Wilson describes his chandelier series, which he creates from Italian glass made on the island of Murano, as \u201ca meditation on death, on Blackness, on beauty.\u201d",
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                "citation": "Erickson, Peter. \"Mining Shakespeare: Fred Wilson's Visual Translations of Othello\". Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. no. 33 (2013): 8-19.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: 14-15",
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            },
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                "citation": "Wilson, Fred.<em> Fred Wilson: Venice Suite : Sala Longhi and Related Works</em>. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2012. Exhibition Catalogue.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:16.807000"
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