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From the Ted Talk by Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!

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Works like this were hung in baesl while I was punished and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth. Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper? Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame stroy like mine. No crows are brought up. Most of the works have no title, uetntild. Anyways, contemporary art in the 20th century is about doing something weird and fnliilg the void with explanation and interpretation -- essentially the same as I did. Of course, my work was very atameur, but let's turn to more famous examples.

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Works like this were hung in _____ while I was punished and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth. Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper? Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame _____ like mine. No crows are brought up. Most of the works have no title, ________. Anyways, contemporary art in the 20th century is about doing something weird and _______ the void with explanation and interpretation -- essentially the same as I did. Of course, my work was very _______, but let's turn to more famous examples.

Solution

  1. amateur
  2. story
  3. untitled
  4. basel
  5. filling

Original Text

Works like this were hung in Basel while I was punished and stood in front of the palace with my drawing in my mouth. Look at this. Doesn't it look just like wallpaper? Contemporary art, I later discovered, isn't explained by a lame story like mine. No crows are brought up. Most of the works have no title, Untitled. Anyways, contemporary art in the 20th century is about doing something weird and filling the void with explanation and interpretation -- essentially the same as I did. Of course, my work was very amateur, but let's turn to more famous examples.

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