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A First: Artist To Be Depicted On English Currency (And Public Will Vote On Who)

VISUAL Posted: May 19, 2015 12:07 pm

“Speaking at the Victoria and Albert museum here on Tuesday, Mark Carney, the governor of the bank, said that artists, sculptors, ceramicists, craftsmen, designers, architects and filmmakers are eligible as long as they are not alive or fictional.”

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VISUAL Published: 05.19.15

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.19.15

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