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- ↑ "Sharing Becomes High Art as New Berman Museum Opens at Ursinus College".
- ↑ "Magiciens de la Terre: Reconsidered" Archived 5 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine , Tate Modern, 2013.
- ↑ "Making Art Global (Part 2): 'Magiciens de la Terre' 1989", Afterall.
- ↑ Jean Fisher, "The Other Story and the Past Imperfect", Tate Papers no. 12 (ISSN 1753-9854), Tate.
- ↑ "Lisa Milroy – Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ↑ "Ringling Museum mural captures the circus in a huge, Baroque way".