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A gallery once sold “air from an opening night” in a jar. Which is the most committed nonsense imaginable.

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No known gallery sold air from an opening night in a jar. Conceptual artists have sold air-related works, such as Piero Manzoni's 1960 balloons of the artist's breath, but this claim is invented.

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