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Filmic Fabric of a People
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The Call of the Wild
His passion...
Idyllic villas, an escape
A trunk text from an ex
Like the Parthenon, but with pollution
City living
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You can't ignore it
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Sources say it was cold there
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The original grime artist
Taste the rainbow
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The past is female
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Porn for the Powder-Wigged
The hills are alive
Don't ask him to make copies
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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Sir Shameless
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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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201 spheres in a big circus tent
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Bless your heart
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Ghosts above the city
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Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
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