Organized by Visual AIDS, “Love Positive Women” is a project that distributes hundreds of hand-crafted Valentine’s Day cards to women living with HIV.
Valentine’s Day
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Cupid Shoots Through Millennia of Art
The god of love and desire has fascinated and inspired artists since antiquity.
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See Films About Love in Time for Valentine’s Day
BAM hosts a new film series, the first segment of which begins this week, with the theme of love.
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My Unexpected Valentine’s Day with Louise Bourgeois
On my first trip to New York in 1998, I looked up Bourgeois in the phone book and called her. To my surprise, she answered and invited me to her home on Valentine’s Day.
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The Peculiar History of Love in Valentine Ephemera from the 18th Century to Today
Nowadays, store-bought Valentines cards may dominate the ways we tell people we love them in writing, but in the past the diversity of notes reveals different ideas about love.
Posted inComics
If Famous Artists Made Valentines Cards
There’s an abundance of missed marketing opportunities in these cards.
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Help Transcribe World War I Love Letters
On this Valentine’s Day, Europeana is launching a crowdsourcing project to transcribe the text of digitized World War I love letters.
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From a Table of Phalluses to a Ménage à Trois Watercolor, Erotic Art Heads to Auction
Sotheby’s first-ever auction of erotic artworks, timed to Valentine’s Day, features a delightful range of objects, including a rare homoerotic painting from 18th-century Turkey.
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Vinegar Valentines: The Nasty Anonymous Letters of the Victorian Age
In the late 19th century, a valentine in the post might not necessarily mean a romantic message from a lover or admirer, it could be a downright acidic insult.
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Nothing Like a Porn Kiss for Valentine’s Day
It’s Valentine’s Day today, and while those in love (couples, the polyamorous, people and their pets … ) seek solace in each other’s company as they celebrate their cultural superiority over single people (OK, it’s only implied), the good people at Do Something Good (DSG) have created an intimate (who are we kidding, it’s porn) site for you to share with your loved ones.
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Five Artists We Don’t Want to Be Our Valentine
Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Here are a few artists who we wouldn’t particularly like to spend a romantic Valentine’s Day with, from the over-sharing to the unstable to the plain unsettling.
