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British contemporary art gallery, opened in 1993 by [a=Jay Jopling] in London. In addition to two UK branches, [i]Mason's Yard[/i] in Central London and [i]Bermondsey[/i] in South East, [b]White Cube[/b] operates four international galleries in Hong Kong, Paris, New York City and West Palm Beach in Florida, USA. White Cube represents several notable living artists, including [a=Damien Hirst], [a=David Altmejd], [a=Georg Baselitz], [a=Tracey Emin], [a=Cerith Wyn Evans], [a=Theaster Gates], [a=Gilbert And George], [a=Antony Gormley], [a=Mona Hatoum], [a=Anselm Kiefer], [a=Julie Mehretu], [a=Beatriz Milhazes], [a=Sarah Morris (2)], [a=Gabriel Orozco], [a=Virginia Overton], [a=Eddie Peake], [a=Doris Salcedo], [a=Marc Quinn] and [a=Gavin Turk] (in the past). The gallery also manages artist estates of [a=Al Held] (since 2018), [url=https://discogs.com/artist/1170127]Takis[/url] (since 2020), and [a=Isamu Noguchi] (since 2021). White Cube faced criticism on various occasions. In the late 1990s, the "Stuckists" art group declared war against "[i]the sterility of the white wall gallery system[/i]," and opened a space with brightly-colored walls on the adjoined street. In 2002, they dressed as clowns and placed a coffin marked "Death of Conceptual Art" outside the gallery's entrance. In 2011, an anonymous group launched [b]whitecu.be[/b] website, posting an institutional critique of authorship and trademark practices; it was shut down after the gallery's lawyers cease & desist letters against the Belgium domain registrar. Subsequently, this art group transformed legal correspondence with White Cube in the artwork series.