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Please note that today's episode of Art Curious contains language discussing violence and suicide.

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Late in 2019, I took a trip to Washington, D.C. for work,

and one of the best parts of my current life is that work, in lots of cases, really just means

visiting a lot of museums and galleries, which is pretty much what I'd want to do in my off-time

anyway. But sometimes, after a full day of art,

even my brain needs a big old break. So one of my favorite things to do is to mix things up.

I'll go to a music performance or a cinema museum, something like that. But most often, it's a science

or natural history museum, a place that allows

me to exercise an entirely different part of my brain. So, I ended up this time at the Smithsonian

National Museum of Natural History, and I toured around their vast, beautiful, geological, and gemological

holdings.

And that's when I ended up in a gallery teeming with people, all rubbernecking around one single

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