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		<title>The Ignorance of Liberal Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the art world, one will rarely (if ever) find any class, taste, standards, or decency, but pure ignorance comes in droves.

So this semi-functional puddle of piss work of art ought not surprise anyone.
You have to admire the gratitude of liberals. Abuse and ignorance is what W. gets for defending Muslims from tyranny, for fighting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tsfiles.wordpress.com&blog=2954435&post=4811&subd=tsfiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 15 Most Expensive Paintings in the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 15 Most Expensive Paintings in the World
Posted in Art, Everything Else Tagged: Art, francis bacon, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, most expensive, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, Willem de Kooning      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tsfiles.wordpress.com&blog=2954435&post=4031&subd=tsfiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monet Painting Sells for A Lot of Mo_ney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claude Monet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Le Bassin aux Nympheas]]></category>

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Claude Monet&#8217;s painting &#8220;Le Bassin aux Nympheas,&#8221; seen here, sold for 40.9 million pounds (51.7 million euros, 80.5 million dollars) at an auction in London on Tuesday, smashing the previous record auction price for the artist&#8217;s work.
(AFP/HO/File)
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		<title>The Delphic Sibyl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorites:

The Delphic Sibyl
The Sistine Chapel
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		<title>From the Aliza Shvarts School of Artsy Ideas / Meet Professor Pia Lindman</title>
		<link>http://tsfiles.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/from-the-aliza-shvarts-school-of-artsy-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can anyone take art seriously when artists feel compelled to do this shit?
Thankfully, this is very tame compared to what Yale &#8220;art student,&#8221; Aliza Shvarts, considered &#8220;art.&#8221;
Speaking of talent-challenged Ms. Shvarts, while the controversy she caused focused entirely on her, there was one person we all forgot: her advisor, the &#8220;performance artist&#8221; Ms. Pia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tsfiles.wordpress.com&blog=2954435&post=404&subd=tsfiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Irrelevance of Modern Art and Aliza Shvarts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andres Serrano]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Piss Christ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of art has long been so irrelevant that it regularly resorts to shock theater. Sadly, legitimate and talented artists toil in obscurity while juvenile hacks are elevated to national attention.
A famous example of such faux-art is &#8220;Piss Christ&#8221; by Catholic and photographer Andres Serrano. The recipient of a grant by the U.S. National [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tsfiles.wordpress.com&blog=2954435&post=376&subd=tsfiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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