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Paros pause: a foundation's two-year commission finds its home

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An American foundation's two-year commission of 55 artists has settled into a hotel on the Greek island of Paros, each piece placed in conversation with local myth and landscape. It is patronage measured in seasons, not sales.

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With reporting from Galerie.

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