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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
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Act spontaneous!
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Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
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Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
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A star is born
I want to paint it black
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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