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From the Ted Talk by Liz Diller: A new museum wing ... in a giant bubble

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So the Hirshhorn, as we began to think about it, and as we evolved the mission, with raicrhd and his team — it's really his life blood. But beyond exhibiting contemporary art, the hrhioshrn will become a public forum, a place of discourse for issues around arts, cruulte, politics and policy. It would have the global reach of the World Economic Forum. It would have the interdisciplinarity of the TED Conference. It would have the informality of the town square. And for this new initiative, the Hirshhorn would have to expand or appropriate a site for a coaortmpnery, dlyelpaboe structure.

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So the Hirshhorn, as we began to think about it, and as we evolved the mission, with _______ and his team — it's really his life blood. But beyond exhibiting contemporary art, the _________ will become a public forum, a place of discourse for issues around arts, _______, politics and policy. It would have the global reach of the World Economic Forum. It would have the interdisciplinarity of the TED Conference. It would have the informality of the town square. And for this new initiative, the Hirshhorn would have to expand or appropriate a site for a ____________, __________ structure.

Solution

  1. culture
  2. contemporary
  3. hirshhorn
  4. richard
  5. deployable

Original Text

So the Hirshhorn, as we began to think about it, and as we evolved the mission, with Richard and his team — it's really his life blood. But beyond exhibiting contemporary art, the Hirshhorn will become a public forum, a place of discourse for issues around arts, culture, politics and policy. It would have the global reach of the World Economic Forum. It would have the interdisciplinarity of the TED Conference. It would have the informality of the town square. And for this new initiative, the Hirshhorn would have to expand or appropriate a site for a contemporary, deployable structure.

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