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Photo: Workers hang the ribbon from the canopy of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Our newest link to art

The Manetti Shrem Museum holds its grand opening this Sunday (Nov. 13), with a street party at 10 a.m. and a "ribbon cutting" at noon — with no ribbon and no cutting! Instead, the ceremony will feature the site-specific art you see here: a chain of fabric-covered foam rings painted by members of the community. Once the chain is unlinked, the museum doors will open. Admission is free. [ Read about the museum's
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