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Brazilian Paulo Nazareth’s “Banana Market/Art Market” during the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Surfers walk past work titled “Pedestrian Portrait” by Australian artist Jennifer Cochrane at Sydney’s Tamarama Beach. AP Photo

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“Cardinal Sin” a new work by British artist Banksy is unveiled at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England. REUTERS

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The rusty steel monoliths of local artist Steve Croquett’s “Heads Up” dominate Tamarama Beach during the launch of the 15th annual Sculpture By The Sea exhibition in Sydney. AFP/Getty Image

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The sculpture “Bluebird” by German artist Stefan Rohrer is seen in Obergut Lenthe near Hanover, Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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A worker stops to view a giant paper art display created by paper engineer Benja Harney, at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia. AP Photo

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A visitor looks at a work entitled “The Embrace,” by Patricia Piccinini, featuring a model of a fictitious hairless rodent attacking a woman’s face, at the Berlin Art Forum in Berlin. AP Photo

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Connecting Light, an art installation of illuminated balloons, is seen on Hadrian’s Wall near Newcastle, England. Roughly 400 illuminated balloons have been placed along the wall built by the Romans, which stretches the width of Britain from Carlisle to Newcastle. The installation was designed by New York artist Zachary Lieberman and collective YesYesNo. REUTERS

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A woman stops to look at the realistic sculpture of the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by artists Alberto Lorente, Manolo Castro and Julio Lorente titled “He” that is on display at the Superior Institute of Arts in Havana, Cuba. AP Photo

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David Shrigley’s work Nutless (2002) seen at the Hayward Gallery in London. REUTERS

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A visitor looks at the sculpture “Self” (2012) by Evan Penny, who lives in Canada and was born in South Africa, at the Art Basel exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. AP Photo

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Church visitors stand under 300 golden angels attached to scaffolding during an exhibition in the Holy Cross church in Munich. REUTERS

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A pedestrian looks at the sculpture entitled ‘Survivors’ by Cuban artist Roberto Fabelo during the 10th Art Biennial Exhibition in Havana, Cuba. EPA

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Visitors view an installation by Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno entitled “Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at the Giardini during the 53rd Biennale Internazional Art Exhibition in Venice. REUTERS

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“Who Left The Tap Running” by artist Simon McGrath is seen as part of the Sculpture by the Sea outdoor exhibition along the Bondi to Bronte coastal walk in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images

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Ernie from Sesame Street as a homeless person by artist Patricia Waller “begs” in the exhibition “Broken Heroes” at the Galerie Deschler in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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People visit the exhibition “City of Variety” comprising of a giant city map at the Schlossplatz (Castle Square) in front of the Berlin Cathedral, in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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A man looks at the work “Bowl With Eggs (Green)” (1994-2008) by US artist Jeff Koons at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin. AFP/Getty Images

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People lie in an installation that is part of Tomas Saraceno’s Cloud Cities exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. REUTERS

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The Artwork “Contamination” by Joana Vasconcelos, is seen at Palazzo Grassi during the opening of the exhibition “Il Mondo vi Appartiene” at 54th Visual Arts Biennale in Venice, Italy. EPA

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A man looks at the sculpture “In Bed,” by Australian hyperrealist artist Ron Mueck, at the exhibition of his work in Antique San Idelfonso School, Mexico City, Mexico. EPA

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A visitor takes pictures of an installation representing an exploding wall by Cuban artists Dagoberto Rodriguez and Marco Castillo during an exhibit at Es Baluard museum in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. REUTERS

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Australian artist Nike Savvas makes final adjustments to her art piece consisting of over 50,000 polystyrene balls at the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney. REUTERS

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A view of the sculpture ‘Awilda’ by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The twelve-feet-high sculpture depicting the face of a woman is presented as part of the Otras Ideas para Rio (Other Ideas for Rio) project and will remain on display for two months. EPA

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