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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Art on the walls and in the toilets
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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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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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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