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This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Understatement of the century
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Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
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This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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Calling all cynical pessimists!
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Ghosts above the city
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The sweetest of portraits
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Let me sit on your shoulders
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An abyss that would make Nietzsche jealous
An MS Paint kinda day
So many bodily fluids
Semi-Homemade paintings
This little piggy went to the market...the stock market that is
Get your hands dirty
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Gorilla warfare! Wait...
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Trespassing & Tiaras
You're gunna get cut
Half suit of armor, half FABULOUS
Nut bags. I mean, net bags.
Skelly head
Tasty!
Mamma can you hear me?
Weems out
Debi just hit the wall
The awkward stencil
Not for the weak-hearted or the balding
Ed Gein's favorite artwork
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Cowboy take me away
The spiritual gunshow
What do you see?
Got milk?
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Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
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Hello, Darkness my old friend
The world's newest most expensive painting
The only thing scarier than a clown is Neel’s past
When doors attack
Blobby woman parts galore
A pretty freeway
Move over, Judith!
Good alternative to stargazing
The big Untitled
From one museum to another
What are you, chicken?
If you don’t get it, then you get it
Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Body is a wonderland
Fancy birthday presents
Sex Reminds Her of Eating Spaghetti
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Filmic Fabric of a People
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
The fight over our genitals rages on
Not your average selfie
Cast yourself as a star!
OUCH
No boys allowed
Sexy Sci-Fi meets creepy cult
You da man Glenn Ligon
FIngerpainting taken to a whole new level
Rodney King's zeitgeist
It's ok to be king
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
We don't need to know the way home
New art in the windy city
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Too truisms
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
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
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Finally, a female gaze
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
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
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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Khan’t stop, won’t stop
