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“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
Could really hold a grudge
Literal love child
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One high-class whore
I just want to do something personal
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It’s all about perspective
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Baby won’t you light my fire
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Nothin' but the nasty
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Stuck in the asphalt with you
Cupid, you are being gross
Shot through the heart
Venus and Cupid experiment with golden showers
The most malicious cherub you'll ever meet
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Cubist dream
With the help of a machine
Love or hate?
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Morning in mid-Montmartre
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The Devil Wears Prada meets My Girl
Hubba hubba
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Ring around the rosie
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
On again off again fake
Married the model
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Where did the time go?
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
2 dope queens
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Sisters before mistresses
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Don’t make me summon the ancestors
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Too truisms
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The greatest sacrifice
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Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
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Dude loved his dots
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
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The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
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If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
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Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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