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    Taking Tea with Henri Matisse

    Oct 05, 2021 1 minute

    hen I moved to Los Angeles from Chicago to attend graduate school in 2015, I was so excited to live in a new city without winter. The first thing I wanted to do was to visit all the city’s museums before school started., by Henri Matisse.

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