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Camille's Garden of Verses

By James Parker
April 17, 2005

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ON DISPLAY UNTIL April 24 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is a piece by the British artist Damien Hirst in which a dead lamb (whole, mint condition) is preserved inside a steel-and-glass case by a few gallons of formaldehyde solution. An object more transparently bereft of context, more pitifully without resonance, cannot be imagined. The title of ... (Full article: 892 words)

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