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Jonathan Livingston by Francois Curlet is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

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The Daily Pic: Francois Curlet made a funereal Jaguar, then filmed it as a thriller's prop.

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(Courtesy Francois Curlet and Galerie Micheline Szwajcer)
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At Art Basel last spring, French artist Francois Curlet presented this installation, of a hearse made from a Jaguar E-type roadster beside a video featuring it – and after all these months I've just now managed to get a low-res clip of the video, titled "Jonathan Livingston".

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