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Has computer controlled lamps giving nearly shadowless light
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Stolen, found, but not returned
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Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
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Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
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Serious hat envy
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Great Scott!
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Beer goggles gone wrong
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An understatement if there ever was one
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Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
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I do my hair toss, check my nails
He's a little young for fetish play
Degas paints puberty
Quit your squawking
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Not Antea, but it's a good story
Classic incest
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
Pink feathers and death sentences
Creepy child stare
In the food court we trust
...but is it porn? If it's porn, it's scary porn
Modeled after a seventy-eight year old woman
Art is the pits
Just another one of Courbet's tricks
Science meets art meets racism
Penny for her thoughts
Here little darlin’, don’t shed no tears.
Deconstruction of the boob
Mirror mirror on the wall
La Indigenista
Old woman, old school
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
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Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
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Cross-Dresser Extraordinaire
Flip it and reverse it
The sweetest of portraits
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Crack that whip
Ssshhhhh…be vewy vewy quiet, I’m weighing my gold!
Oh so sad
"Femme aux Fagots" in French
Girl with a pearl earring's lesser known cousin
Family life in the circus can be in'tents'
RBF, a clinical diagnosis
From one museum to another
Ma’am, your folds are showing
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Toilette humor
Literacy for women FTW
A big old brouhaha
A tale of two testicles?
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
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Bless your heart
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Portrait-ception
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
The one with pants
Friend of an art (not drug) dealer
You spin me right round, baby, right round
Sexism sucks
This woman don’t need no man
Hillary Clinton saw it and said #relatable
Glamorous like Fergie
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Where he got his start
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The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
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Couldn't have been a grocery list
Girl crush
When will my reflection show who I am inside
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The Ambassador Quintet
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Dreaming in Harlem
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
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Mother in law
Olympia who?
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Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
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The original King of Cool
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
thump-thump thump-thump
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Sexy kinda
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Sun King
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
Not accurate
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Kahlo family Christmas card
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The face of romance
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Destroyer of dragons
“He’s a good kid”
Anything for the king
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Child super-genius
A singular achievement
Geniuses, niece and auntie
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Magic mirror on the wall
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Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Breakups will make us do crazy things
Was it all a dream?
What filter is that?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
Paint with all seven fingers
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
No more drinkie
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
The spirit of Caesar
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Used to patch a chicken coop
That other pandemic
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
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A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
Accidental POTUS
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
#MeToo circa 1600
Family portrait Kahlo-style
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
More like Honest Babe
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
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Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Family portrait time!
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Roses really smell like...
Demons never looked so sexy
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
Marilyn Morimura
If at first you don’t succeed...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
A bargain at twice the price
Amsterdam gothic
It’s a rich man’s world
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Friend of the fam
Study up!
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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