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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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