Mr Lauder collects medieval art as well as Klimt.

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Peter Barnet, the Met's curator in charge of medieval art and the Cloisters, said he had been hoping for some time to bring in a work of contemporary art that complemented the Cloisters' setting and collection.

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Rooms of medieval and Renaissance art and a separate pavilion for Asian treasures are fine and absorbing, but unexceptional.

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That's more easily discerned in, say, medieval cathedrals than in art deco architecture like the Chrysler Building.

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Setting itself firmly in Mitteleuropa rather than the Balkans, the country has transformed its capital of Ljubljana into a pedestrianised, cafe-kissed oasis, where a collage of refurbished medieval, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings shine as brightly as the shimmering waters of the Ljubljanica River.

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Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.

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