This is the home of the prestigious Amsterdam School of Arts.

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Salar al Khafaji, a Dutch entrepreneur who went to school in Amsterdam, said it was much the same there.

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After completing an MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in 1994, Stoner, 30, went on to study at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and is currently studying at the British School in Rome.

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He later studied at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, UC Berkeley, USA and the Vancouver Film School in Canada.

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