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Sunday, November 20, 2011
T-Rex Skulls, Priceless Botticellis, Egyptian Treasures...
....Talking of museums, I snapped these two adorable children playing on an installation, with scant respect for fancy avant-garde art, at Avignon's Collection Lambert last week. It was all part of my mega-blitz on as many of the city's museums and galleries as I could cram in in two days. T-Rex skulls, priceless Botticellis, very large, very red Chinese four-poster beds: they're all here, and more. Click here to read more.
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Arts and Culture,
Avignon
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