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Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Exactly what you think it is
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Teaching aide
Dashing Dachshund
Shawty got low low low
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
