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Curator insights - Contemporary galleries

Explore works from our contemporary collection. Click on the linked artwork to find out if it is currently on display in the Gallery.

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Plate pole prop

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Richard Serra is a New York Minimalist who emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Typical of that movement he uses industr... Read more

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