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That self-portrait depicted the artist with a tiny portrait of her muralist husband, Diego Rivera, atop her forehead.

The technique of “Train Dreams”—the stylized juxtaposition of images and narration, the kaleidoscopic jumble of anxious memories and pastoral portraits—is not the stuff of an Old West parable.

Japan boasts about 100 million people packed mostly into a main island smaller than California, and yet the portrait of that nation painted in “Rental Family” is one of rampant, incurable loneliness.

On Nov. 10, Rep. Mike Collins, a candidate in the GOP primary, released an outrageous deepfake digital ad using Ossoff’s official Senate portrait.

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The portrait was looted by the Nazis and almost destroyed in a fire in World War Two, but was rescued in 1948.

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