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Tomás Saraceno Forced Me to Confront My Anxieties About the Modern World

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K-Hole’s Trend Reports Taught Me to Stop Worrying About the Art World

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Susan Hiller’s Dream Mapping Awoke Me From the Solitary Terror of My Nightmares

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Jo Spence’s “Brave” Self-Portraits Taught Me the Brutal Taboos of Womanhood

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Bárbaro Rivas Showed Me the Value of My Own Complicated Heritage

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Ghost World Taught Me How to Embrace My Teenage Loneliness

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Vincent van Gogh, Two Crabs, 1889

Van Gogh’s Two Crabs Raised My Spirits When Nothing Else Could

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Finding Fanon Helped Me to Embrace My Love of Sci-Fi and Pop Culture

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Piero della Francesca’s Pregnant Madonna Changed the Way I See Religion

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Barbara Hepworth’s Winged Figure Taught Me the True Meaning of Home

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The Guerrilla Girls Taught Me That the Art World Is a Joke

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Grant Wood, American, 1891-1942. American Gothic, 1930. The Art Institute of Chicago. Friends of American Art Collection

American Gothic Taught Me to Take Nothing at Face Value

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Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895. Private Collection, Norway. Photo by Thomas Widerberg

The Scream by Edvard Munch Saved Me in My Darkest Depression

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Why Rape of the Sabines Made Me a Feminist

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