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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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