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The little fly on the Madonna's knee
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Roses not guns
No crying in baseball
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Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
Paint-ception
The one that got away
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It's heavier than it looks
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Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
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The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Georgia had some skeletons in her closet...and in her studio
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
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Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
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We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Bring a hankie
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
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Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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