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The Ottoman take on the Eastern-style dragon
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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
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Semi-Homemade paintings
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Not your average mummy
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…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Ghosts above the city
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
We're not sure what's happening here
Cowboy take me away
The spiritual gunshow
What do you see?
Got milk?
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
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What are you, chicken?
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Thanks Courbet, but Marshall’s got it from here
Body is a wonderland
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X” Marks the Spot
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
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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The sweetest of portraits
Monument to a bromance
words of a griffin
Trespassing & Tiaras
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Too truisms
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Remind me who that is?
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Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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