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The 36-year-old Mumbai artist Jitish Kallat has built an international career on politically charged works of art, which are a sharp comment on the times we live in. Yet, even he couldn't have predicted how timely and relevant his latest work - Public Notice 3 - would be when it opened at The Art Institute of Chicago this September to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the US.

The installation links two important events in American history. The first is the landmark speech delivered by Swami Vivekananda calling for an end to "bigotry and fanaticism" at the opening of the first World's Parliament of Religions, on September 11, 1893, held at the site of the Chicago museum. The second is, of course, the terrorist attacks on the same day, 108 years later.
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