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(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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A little dotty herself
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Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Clothing optional
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Floating, we're floating
Ah-Woooooo!
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Don't panic, it's organic
Much more than flower crowns and flash tats
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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Six candles
Birthday of a legend
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Baby Herc nips the nip
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Calling all cynical pessimists!
words of a griffin
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Not your mother's art
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Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
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