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Robert Smithson Quotes: Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
         

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.


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