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WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson

Feb. 17, 2012

"The kiddies love it!" proclaims an email from photog Spencer Tunick, accompanied by several jpgs of two little girls frolicking at the Damien Hirst "Spot Paintings" exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York. The smaller child, who is maybe three years old, wears a turquoise coat and a patterned pink hat with earflaps and pompoms, and holds a pink stuffed monkey. On the doll is a pin that reads, "I [spot] DH."

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