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Our future is a beautiful image. Do it by @bts_bighit #BTS #doitaroundtheworld is a new chapter of @HUObrist ’s ongoing ‘do it’ exhibition with @googlearts . Find out more: Do it archive:
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NOW OPEN! Discover @Jakob_steensen 's 'Catharsis' in a major new outdoor installation! 🌳 ✨ #Connect_BTS Plan your visit:
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INTRODUCING | CATHARSIS #Connect_BTS @Jakob_steensen ’s virtual forest launches today at the Serpentine Galleries. Step inside the world of 'Catharsis' now at
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We are so excited to launch @jakob_steensen ’s 'Catharsis' ✨ View the livestream now at . Visit us from 28 Jan to experience the forest in a major outdoor screen and audio installation! #Connect_BTS
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Music-Art You-I-We #BTS_CONNECT A note from BTS via @hansulrichobrist
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Step inside the virtual forest of @Jakob_steensen 's ‘Catharsis’ 🌳🍃 #Connect_BTS #SoundOn to hear Matt McCorkle's ( @equalsonics ) majestic soundscape 🎧 Discover the livestream now:
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Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow for a big announcement! An exciting new digital commission is coming to the Serpentine… Hint: it involves a virtual forest 🌳
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Experience the healing powers of nature without leaving the house. #Connect_BTS Access the 'Catharsis' livestream here:
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Our hero @tomassaraceno launched a “radically different voyage” earlier this month. His fuel-free hot air balloon ‘Aerocene Pacha’ broke 6 world records, floating a human into the sky using only sun and air for the first time in history! #Connect_BTS
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Last week we launched a new ‘do it’ instruction by #BTS Check out some of our favourites below! #doitaroundtheworld is a new chapter of @HUObrist ’s ongoing ‘do it’ exhibition. Explore new and archival do its at @googlearts :
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This is the last weekend to experience the magic of Jakob Kudsk Steensen's virtual forest 'Catharsis' 🦋🌸✨ Visit before it ends tomorrow! #Connect_BTS What has been your favourite thing about ‘Catharsis’?
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These BTS memes are giving us life. #BTSArmy
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@SerpentineUK @Jakob_steensen Greetings from the other side of the world who could only wish to see this in person. Great work! 💜💜 @BTS_twt
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'Catharsis' lighting up the Serpentine tonight ✨🌝 #Connect_BTS #Catharsis @Jakob_steensen
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It's here! The new @bts_bighit album has officially dropped. #BTSComeback2020 Celebrate this weekend with a visit to 'Catharsis' – the majestic forest installation commissioned by BTS as part of their global art project #Conect_BTS
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Thanks to all who braved the stormy weather to see 'Catharsis' this weekend. We love your atmospheric pics✨ #WeLoveYouBTS #Connect_BTS
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The galleries are closed for installation until 4 March, but visitors can still experience @Jakob_steensen 's outdoor portal to a virtual forest 🌳🍄✨ #Connect_BTS 'Catharsis' is on view Tues-Sun, 10am-6pm.
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Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s ecological artworks bridge art and technology to foster closer attention to the world around us 🌳 ✨ 'Catharsis' is on view all weekend, 10am-6pm. #CONNECT_BTS
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If you enjoyed 'Catharsis' you will love @jakob_steensen ’s ‘The Deep Listener’, an ecological trail through the Serpentine's surrounding parks. #Connect_BTS
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Thanks to all who joined us for the launch of 'Catharsis' yesterday 🦋 A smaller version of the work is available to view in Chucs until a major outdoor installation opens 28 Jan. @jakob_steensen @equalsonics * Please note Chucs is closed tomorrow – 16 Jan *
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The incredible soundscape of ‘Catharsis’ was created by @equalsonics 🎵 🌱
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Last weekend to experience the ASMR magic of @Jakob_steensen 's 'Catharsis' – closing 31 May🦋 #Connect_BTS
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#SaturdayTalks : Join Serpentine Producer Alexander Boyes this weekend (2pm) for a free tour of 'Catharsis' by @Jakob_steensen . #Connect_BTS Find out more:
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“For me, 'Catharsis' is about slowing down the noisy times we live in.” – @Jakob_steensen Join Producer Alexander Boyes today at 2pm for a tour of the #Connect_BTS artwork ✨
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LAST WEEK to discover the virtual forest of 'Catharsis' – closing Sunday. Come at dusk for an extra special experience! 🌙 Open Tues-Sun, 10am-6pm.
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For a start, our 'Catharsis' livestream has been extended to 31 May. If you haven't visited @Jakob_steensen 's virtual forest, now is definitely the time. Sit back and let that ASMR work its magic.
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Looking for art to explore at home? Missing regular contact with nature? Download 'The Deep Listener' app by #Connect_BTS artist @Jakob_steensen and discover London park species such as plane trees, bats and parakeets in AR.
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Watch @tomassaraceno make history – livestreaming today 2pm UK time! #Connect_BTS
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WITH THE AIR! Connect with @tomassaraceno and @aerocene community TODAY - April 25th at 10AM BUENOS AIRES / 3PM BERLIN / 10PM SEOUL - for an exclusive screening of the fourth chapter of #FlyWithAerocenePacha via @bts_bighit towards a new era for the air
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We are excited to announce that Frida Escobedo has been selected as architect for the Serpentine Pavilion 2018. The courtyard-based design will harness a subtle interplay of light, water and geometry. @fridaescobedo #FridaEscobedo #SerpentinePavilion
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Our galleries may be closed but our digital channels remain very much open. Stay tuned for special broadcasts, podcasts, digital commissions & more coming soon. We look forward to seeing your faces soon. Until then, see you on the internet ♥️
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Don't get caught in these #AprilShowers , get inside the Serpentine instead and see #EmmaKunz !
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“In a society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis The Serpentine stands in solidarity with the Black community and #BlackLivesMatter .
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We're thrilled to announce the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion will be designed by award winning architect Francis Kéré
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Own your very own @yokoono edition. Now 50% off!
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“The work of art is a scream of freedom.” RIP Christo 💔 We will always remember the summer you lit up Hyde Park with your Serpentine exhibition and The London Mastaba floating sculpture made with 7,506 stacked barrels ✨🌈
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London is open and always will be ❤️ #LondonIsOpen
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We are proud to announce that Junya Ishigami is to design the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion. The Japanese architect is celebrated for his experimental structures that interpret traditional architectural conventions and reflect natural phenomena.
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The ever popular Grow Love with Me by @yokoono is 50% off online and in our shop, for a short period only!
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@ind00rkites @doyou_bangtan @Jakob_steensen Hi! A special preview of the work will be on view from 1pm today at Chucs Restaurant (at the Serpentine Galleries) until a major outdoor public installation opens from 28 Jan. You can also view the 'Catharsis' livestream now! Find out more here:
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Congratulations to Rose Wylie on winning the South Bank Sky Arts Award 2018 for Visual Art for her exhibition Quack Quack at @SerpentineUK !
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One for the diary - 10 June Agnes Gryczkowska leads tour of Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! 3pm
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Don't miss ‘Grayson Perry: Divided Britain’ on @Channel4 tonight at 9pm. See the Brexit pots in his exhibition opening here next week!
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Opening Sat, 23 March - Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings - An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou.
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Great news! Due to popular demand, the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion designed by @fuergando shall remain open til 19 Nov!
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Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech is live! With immense gratitude to our contributors, co-conspirators and friends @VivLaNova , @eva33313 , @garyzhexizhang , @alicescope_ , #AmiraGad , @drewchit , @AnnetteMees , @barrythrew , @neb , #BillyRennekamp , @Brigitte_Vezina ...
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The sun sets on another day in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens @ChristoandJC @theroyalparks
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✨ 2020 Pavilion Announcement ✨ The 20th Serpentine Pavilion will be designed by Johannesburg-based trio @_counterspace Inspired by gatherings & community, the sustainable structure will include a series of moveable parts that travel across London.
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I LOVE YOU EARTH 🌏 For #EarthDay , @YokoOno ’s message will appear on billboards across the UK as a reminder to care for our endangered planet. Do you love Earth? Find a billboard near you & share the message with #ILOVEYOUEARTH . @clearchanneluk
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Open today the Serpentine Architecture Programme in #HydePark ! Come and explore these amazing buildings until 9 Oct.
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Grow Love with Me by @yokoono is always popular in our gift shop #souvenirsMW http://t.co/GBLRDVW8B0 http://t.co/SaKLq7WXkQ
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With existing art industry models under threat, can new ones emerge in the post-coronavirus era? Serpentine CTO @benvickers_ and @benlukeart talk blockchain, BTS and Future Art Ecosystems in the latest @TheArtNewspaper podcast.
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Got a question you want to ask Grayson Perry? Send it through using #AskGrayson and we'll get it answered at his sold out talk on 24 July!
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Take a first look at this year's Pavilion! BIG's soaring 'unzipped wall'. Opening 10 June.
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Grayson Perry's The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! is heading West!
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Spreading a little love for the weekend, here's @yokoono 's joyous manifesto marathon 2008
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"af Klint worked on many of her pictures on her studio floor like a cosmic Jackson Pollock"
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Inspired by @yokoono ’s Bed-In for Peace, Beatriz Colomina is talking all things work today in the Pavilion until 4pm!
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Unveiled today - first photos of the 2015 #SerpentinePavilion by #selgascano . Opens to the public on Thursday 25 June http://t.co/5KhHUZrfKY
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TODAY! At 3:30pm for an hour Grayson Perry will be signing exhibition catalogues in the Pavilion.
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IG LIVE TODAY 5pm: Artist @refikanadol x Serpentine Digital Curator @kayhannahwatson . They will discuss Refik’s work with AI and data, sci-if influences, and #FutureArtEcosystems . Refik will also give a special tour of his studio ✨💻👀 Tune in on our Insta, 5pm BST 🤳
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"...we are understanding images to be our equals, having a life and a power of their own." Etel Adnan
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“We don’t need perfection we need nervous breakdowns” Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) Today we celebrate the life of avant-garde film-maker, artist and poet #JonasMekas , and the incredible and generous contributions he gave to the world and to the Serpentine.
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"The abandoned baby, the 3 black crows, the hanging man - come from patterns in Japanese candlestick graphs used by traders" Grayson Perry
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You can see the mystical work of past Serpentine exhibitors Emma Kunz and Hilma Af Klint in a new exhibition about 'The Spiritual in Art' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art? Thanks for the recommendation @greatwomenart ! ✨
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@YokoOno pauses digital screens tonight to share an urgent message of global peace with & @SerpentineUK . In aid of the humanitarian crisis, Yoko Ono's time-limited edition print is available to purchase on #IMAGINEPEACE
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Join us on 20 June from 6pm for the preview of the Serpentine Pavilion 2019, designed by Junya Ishigami + Associates. Here are some photos of the construction! #SerpentinePavilion2019 #SerpentinePavilion Photography © 2019 Taran Wilkhu @taranwilkhu
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"Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings." RIP Baldessari 🖤 Photo: @HUObrist
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Today is your last chance to see @Alan_Measles + #ArthurJafa @SerpentineUK Open 10-6! @fuergando 's #Pavilion remains open til Oct 8th
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"When I won the Turner Prize a journalist said to me 'Are you a loveable character or a serious artist?' I said, 'I'm both, deal with it."
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We are thrilled to be working with @gabrielmassan and their collaborators on 'Artist Worlds' 2023. Massive thanks to @tezos , known for its artistic communities, for powering the project – more soon!
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Etel Adnan (1925–2021) ☀️ ⛰️ “The world needs Togetherness, not separation. Love, not suspicion. A common future, not isolation.”
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Announcing the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion designed by Lina Ghotmeh. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023. #SerpentinePavilion2023
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Come down to the Pavilion this weekend for @openhouselondon and also catch our Bed-In installation, inspired by @yokoono & John Lennon's 'Bed-Ins For Peace' and part of the Work Marathon! This Saturday only!
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NOW OPEN💫   Grab a pillow, lie down, look up and immerse yourself in @rc_tvb ’s Heavens installation at @SwissChurchLond until 17 October. Composition by Pan Daijing.
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Featuring 7,506 horizontally stacked barrels floating on the Serpentine Lake, standing 65.5 ft high and opening today – The London Mastaba by @ChristoandJC is their first outdoor, public work in the UK. #ChristoLondon
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First look: Alex Katz: Quick Light and Etel Adnan: The Weight of the World open tomorrow!
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“I never said no to life. I have a responsibility to the world, to my planet.” RIP Luchita Hurtado 🌱✨💙
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Missed Grayson Perry The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! @SerpentineUK ? Don't worry it opens @ArnolfiniArts today!
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As part of Art Basel Miami and the @Tezos Ecosystem Speaker Series, Serpentine will present two conversations exploring artistic relationships between creativity and blockchain whilst considering its significance for future ecosystem building.
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Very saddened to hear of the death of Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain's greatest painters 1932 - 2017
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"Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you" Etel Adnan final wks
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Artist Beatriz Colomina’s Bed-In installation will be starting soon in the Serpentine Pavilion as part of the #WorkMarathon . Inspired by @yokoono and John Lennon’s famous Bed-In for Peace in 1969, the installation will take place until 4pm this afternoon. Don’t miss it!
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"I am interested in fragmentation and abstraction and explosion, de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production." Zaha Hadid
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So many amazing pictures of the #SerpentinePavilion and Summer Houses on Instagram. Please keep sharing them with us
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Also as part of our Serpentine Architecture Programme 2016 come and explore these four stunning Summer Houses!
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REVEALED: We’re honoured to announce the 21st #SerpentinePavilion has been designed by @TheasterGates . The Pavilion 2022, Black Chapel is realised with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates ( @AdjayeAssoc ). Find out more
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Sat @ 3pm Assistant Curators Claude Adjil & Agnes Gryczkowska give tours of #HilmaafKlint : Painting the Unseen. Free
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Take a mind-bending journey into the world of fungi with @MerlinSheldrake next month! 🍄 Join us online as we look down to ‘The Understory of The Understory’. #Understory 5-6 December. Register free:
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📢 JUST ANNOUNCED: GLOBAL OPEN CALL 📢 Judy Chicago, @janefonda & @swoon have teamed up with Serpentine, @greenpeaceusa , @WomenInTheArts & @FireDrillFriday to launch #CreateArtforEarth – a global initiative to encourage art that addresses the climate crisis and inspires action🌍
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“Every art is a window into a world that only art can access.” Etel Adnan, The Weight of the World.
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We are very sorry but tomorrow’s ‘Catharsis’ Saturday Talk is cancelled. You can still enjoy the calming effects of the Catharsis livestream online here:
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What on Earth is ground? How is soil entangled & connected with other forms of life? What are the politics of land, the toxicities of agriculture? Join us online as we look down to ‘The Understory of The Understory’. #Understory 5-6 Dec. Register free:
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“At the root of all of my works are stories. They are the engines. Stories and words are what I love most”. Laurie Anderson in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist celebrating her latest book All the Things I Lost in the Fire @LRBbookshop
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Serpentine Galleries supports @MayorofLondon 's campaign - our doors are open to all #LondonIsOpen
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Announcing the designs for 16th annual Pavilion, Serpentine Architecture Programme 2016
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Didn't make the final day of Emma Kunz? Then watch the exhibition film!
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