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Brits, Burberry and the Biennale! What happened inside the British Pavilion opening

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If you thought London’s art district (better known as Cork Street, Mayfair) felt a little barren in the middle of last month, you were on to something. Everyone, their PA and their PA’s trio of interns had shlepped to and hunkered down in a super-yacht, the Cipriani hotel or the floor of an Airbnb with five other gallery girls (depending on one’s level of seniority/parentage). Yes, it was the lavish pre-opening of the 60th

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