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Little bronze people in agony
"There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture."
The King is in the house
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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