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Column: In Venice Beach, it's taken nearly a decade to not build low-income housing The Venice Dell project has been approved again and again, only to be stymied by local officials who oppose it.

Just a remarkable failure of governance: 18 meetings, two council votes, two commission hearings over the course of five years, with many millions in taxpayer dollars on the line, and not even a single shovel in the ground.
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Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese (1760-1849), Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry, from an untitled series of flowers and birds, 1829-39, color woodblock print, chuban, 25.4 × 19.1 cm, mat: 45.8 x 35.6 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Hannes Bok, American (1914-1964), The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Weird Tales interior art, 1942, mixed media on paper, 19.4 x 19.7 cm, private collection

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English denizen (1836-1912), Woman and Flowers, 1868, oil on panel, 49.8 x 37.2 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853-1890), Sunset at Montmajour, 1888, oil on canvas, 73.3 x 93.3 cm, private collection
(authenticated 2013)

Kate Diehn-Bitt, German (1900-1978), Self-Portrait as Painter, 1935, oil on wood, 100 x 70 cm, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany

Artist: Ralph McQuarrie

Once upon a time, a mole lived and he had his own mole hole (a house). It was his portable property that could stand anywhere and no land tax had to be paid for this because it was a mole, spectacled and armed, with exclusive length nails which helped him to dig the longest tunnel with very little effort. Of course, he didn‘t know anything about the secret exit. A caterpillar was running out through it as soon as he started feeling danger. It always happened but as soon as it gets to know about it, that will end or maybe they‘ll become friends… That‘s the story that was born in my head while I was turning over the corpse of vacuum cleaner in my hands. Materials : A mole hole is the corps of an old vacuum cleaner; A body is a corps of a truck lamp, the part of illuminator and an aluminum plate; Mustache is a steel wire; Hands are an aluminum 8 mm wire, 12 mm aluminum tubes and 2 plates; Glasses are the part of old theatre binoculars; A spotlight is a luminaire hood and a car antenna tip. A MOLE HOLE. This portable property belongs to a mole until the end of his life.

Artūras Tamašauskas : Steampunk Mole, 2017

34 x 35 x 40 cm
Sculpture, Metals / Aluminium on Aluminium

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Johannes Vermeer, Dutch (1658-1660), The Wine Glass, 1650s, canvas, 67.7 x 79.6 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Marie Laurencin, French (1883-1956), Deux Femmes et une biche, 1923, oil on canvas, 73.0 x 54.0 cm, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Jean-Siméon Chardin, French (1699-1779), Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs, c. 1734, oil on canvas, 32.2 x 40.7 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Victor Brauner, Romanian (1903-1966), Oiseau feuille, 1964, oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60 cm, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA

Nope. He always made me want to vomit.

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Wow.

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

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Paul Grabwinkler, Austrian (1880-1946), Ein Märchenkind (A Fairytale Child), 1922, watercolor and charcoal heightened with white on light brown paper, 34.6 x 27.3 cm, private collection

Artist: Vida Gábor
Title: The Apothecary

Carl Spitzweg, German (1808-1885), Der arme Poet, 1839, oil on panel, 36.2 x 44.6 cm, Neue Pinakothek (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), Die Pinakotheken, Munich, Germany

Gottfried Graf, German (1881-1938), Spielende Knaben III (schwartz-rot-gold) (Playing Boys III (black-red-gold)), 1925, oil on canvas, 100.5 x 71.5 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

Leon Wyczółkowski, Polish (1852-1936), White Roses in a Vase, 1911, gouache, watercolor, pastel on paperboard, 85.5 x 66.5 cm, private collection

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What percentage of Americans aren’t even in the market? Get real.