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- ↑ "Light Industry: Building a New Kind of Cinema in Industry City | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
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- ↑ "2017 Recipients: Rudolf Frieling & Ed Halter". Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
