For example he turns theft into a way of distributing art: he puts up posters of his paintings in public places, and soon they're gone.

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The complex, says Heather, covers 30 acres and houses around 1, 000 artists making paintings, posters and other artwork, including nonideological pottery.

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Here, curator Dennis Cate has assembled more than 200 paintings, drawings, prints, posters and zinc shadow-theater cutouts, including works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, the Incoherents, the Nabis and Symbolists.

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