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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Mining doesn’t cause death
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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