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balloon

[buh-loon] / bəˈlun /
NOUN
inflated material or vehicle
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“Girl With Balloon on Found Landscape” sold for $18 million at a Manhattan auction, signaling renewed demand for the once-anonymous street artist.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Panahi has won a host of prizes at European film festivals and showcased his debut film "The White Balloon" in Cannes in 1995 which won an award for best first feature.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

No modern museum is complete without plenty of social media-ready photo opportunities, and the Balloon Museum saves the best for last.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

And in 2018, in a highly theatrical piece of performance art, the artist staged a live destruction of his stencil Girl with Balloon at Sotheby's auction house - moments after it was sold for £1m.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024

It looked like Dr. Zinchenko had instructed her video artists to run a Balloon Fiesta simulation for the final day of the Library Olympics.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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