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The Inventor of the Snapshot
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Para el Cambio
Psychedelic wall of color
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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