The New Metaphysical Art movement has some respected backers and an agenda that goes beyond protest.

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But while the city that embraced the rule-breaking Bauhaus movement may have found a new role as the unofficial art capital of Europe, it's nothing like Paris or New York: No one teeters around its cobblestone streets in high heels, no one asks what anyone else does for a living or how much they make doing it.

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Graphic, product, and industrial design influenced by art and fashion, and vice versa, are the focus of this new design movement.

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The painting by the founder of the American art movement known as the Hudson River School was given to Seward when he was governor of New York in the early 1840s.

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