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1954– Blonde bombshell Barbara Nichols, in one of her most famous early promotional shots, captured while she was transitioning from a successful pin-up and cheesecake modeling career to Hollywood films.

Poster for Sam Newfield’s 1949 movie ‘Wild Weed’ renamed ‘She Shoulda Said No!’ The movie was made after the arrest of Lila Leeds and Robert Mitchum on a charge of marijuana conspiracy after being caught smoking joints in Lila Leeds home in 1948.

Ava Gardner publicity photo from the 1940s shows her in a playful, athletic pose on a beach, wearing a football helmet and holding a football.

A young Lucille Ball, seen here in a 1935 portrait during her "platinum blonde era" at RKO Studios, a period before she adopted her signature flaming red hair. She is wearing a gondolier style hat, which was a Hollywood fashion trend inspired by the 1935 film Top Hat.

#WordOfTheDay UGSOME Archaic dialectal (Scottish/N. English) word meaning hideous, loathsome, or frightening. Originating in the 14th century from Old Norse ugga (to fear), it describes something that causes intense fear or disgust, often used to mean "horrible" or "repulsive".

Joseph Marr, an artist based in Berlin, creates stunning, translucent sculptures using sugar as his primary medium. While he intended for people to simply view and smell the works, many visitors started licking them, leading to viral fame for the "edible" nature of his art.

Zhou Mingxing is a Chinese land artist who creates massive portraits and animal figures using corn kernels. He meticulously arranges thousands of individual kernels by hand on the concrete ground of his yard.

"What I'm Looking At" is an ongoing art project and short film series by British artist Freddie Yauner. It features the artist wearing a specialized mirrored mask that covers his face and reflects his exact field of vision back to the camera.

Chien Chu Lee is an artist from Taiwan that carves incredible miniature sculptures from lead pencils.

Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick, 1964 {📸 David McCabe}

"The Devil’s Grandmother" by Karl Alexander Wilke, from an issue of the Austrian erotic magazine Mocca, 1933. Wilke’s work for Mocca often featured theatrical, slightly grotesque, or folklore-inspired themes with bold colors.

This 1863 painting by French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre depicts the ancient story of Roman Charity. It illustrates the selfless act of a young woman named Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon, to save him from a sentence of death by starvation in prison.

“Ironing Chips” Tatsuya Tanaka is a Japanese miniature photographer and "mitate" artist known for his ongoing project, "Miniature Calendar," where he transforms everyday objects into whimsical, tiny worlds and photographs them.

The Connoisseur, a painting by Norman Rockwell, first appearing as the cover for the Saturday Evening Post (Jan. 13, 1962) The painting explores the tension between conventional illustration and an abstract expressionist "drip" painting style popularized by Jackson Pollock.

Street Art: Life Support by Dr. Love Dr. Love (born Bacha Khoperia) is a prominent Georgian street artist known for integrating living elements like moss graffiti into his urban installations. His work frequently blends humor and social commentary.

A Voluptuous Smoke, a painting by the French Academic artist Charles Édouard Edmond Delort, created in 1867.

Jan Miense Molenaer’s The Five Senses: Smell (1637) is a small oil painting depicting a humorous, raw scene of a woman cleaning a child's soiled diaper. It is part of a series portraying the five senses through peasant life, showcasing mundane, often unrefined, activities.

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Boubou Niang is a Senegalese artist famous for his viral videos where he creates hyper-realistic portraits using unconventional tools and high-energy techniques.

Salvador Dalí wearing "The Eye of Time," designed by the Spanish artist himself in 1949. This piece is a functional jeweled brooch shaped like a human eye with an enameled mechanical watch face embedded in its "iris". Crafted from platinum and set with numerous diamonds.