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Put a bag over their head, it'll be fine
Professional forger of both Picassos and bank notes
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Brain...confused...
As surreal as a Lewis Carroll novel
Must have been smoking some trees when he painted this one
Oh say can you see?
A look within the soul
Is it art if it makes you ill?
Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Smoking something?
An alternate title might have been "reverse mermaid" (Maidmer?)
I think I just got incepted...
You’ll never look at jingle bells the same way again
Like beer goggles, but for rapists
When you play the game of chairs you win or you die
Basically an episode of Law & Order: SVU
Look and listen
Side Eye Like You’ve Never Seen
Making castles in the air
Where’d he go?
You just have too much money, sir!
A great painter not really expressing anything
I can’t think of anything to say
Give up the boot
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Interracial dating meets intolerance
Lusty ladies come to play
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Halibut smile
Young, dumb and in love
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Not one but many selves
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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Ghosts above the city
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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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