It has responded to tornadoes, flash floods and tropical storms around the United States, amassing a gallery of before-and-after images that span generations: a formal childhood portrait, rippled and flecked with dirt.

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And a gallery of U2 before they were preachifying tax exiles.

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The single-artist exhibition of Mr. Fischer's work, which opened Thursday evening, is part of a long-standing tradition at the Beverly Hills gallery to open a major show the Thursday before the Academy Awards.

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Touma said that many of his traditional audience had fled Syria, and instead many of the people coming to the festival had never been to a gallery or been interested in photography before.

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You'll have but two months to wait before adding this monster to your collection, but you can snag a look today in our gallery below and hands-on video after the break.

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Nor can rich collectors simply walk into a gallery and pick up a work of art: the best pieces are sold before the show opens.

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She also said he was a co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in 1963 before going on to found his own gallery and the Demarco European Art Foundation and that he has been involved with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in one way or another since its inception.

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The last gallery, called "Spaces of Modern Life, " is a culmination of all that came before it, a sort of Second Empire fugue state of themes expressed and interwoven.

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