For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts
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The Korean artist’s ingenious machine sculptures, coming to the New Museum, show things that “you don’t actually want to see,” a leading curator says. One morning earlier this month, the artist Mire Lee was sitting outside at a cafe in Seoul as she discussed an artwork that she came up
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Biennale Arte 2022
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Soon your home could be a gallery for kinetic art, kinetic art
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女子PGA選手權 第2日] 매과이어-5,라이드,보르그,린-4,페이스,李민지-3
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Guts by Jim Lee : r/Berserk
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Flames of Mira (Rift Walker, #1) by Clay Harmon
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New Museum of Contemporary Art - Page 6 - The New York Times
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Everything Here Is Beautiful: A Novel: Lee, Mira T.: 9780735221970
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Mire Lee Tina Kim Gallery
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New Museum of Contemporary Art - Page 6 - The New York Times
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See South Korean Rising Star Mire Lee's Gutsy Debut of Squelching