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The V&A museum is showing a retrospective of some of Cartier’s most iconic creations, many never seen before in public. Read ...

The following answers to this artful question each win a random book. Art is something we do, a verb. Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires, but it is even more ...