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This Artsy V-Day Gift Will Bring You Together

It’s both a personalized gift and to-do activity.

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Make Your Guests Feel Awkward With “We Had Sex In This Room” Artwork

Watch friends squirm with discomfort on the couch, their minds plagued with images of you and your boyfriend on the couch… on the counter… in the shower…

How To Have Sex and Make An Abstract Painting at the Same Time

Some people have sex. Some people make love. But what you do in the bedroom can only be described as high art.

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6 Sexy (But Not Cheesy!) Gifts For a Lover

“Your slacker boyfriend gives you a cupcake; your lover gives you macarons.”

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An Open Letter to Jon Finkel: Let’s Make Out.

I imagine it’s been a rough week for you, what with a lady on the Internet publicly talking about how undateable you are and all.

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NYC Date Idea: Check Out NYC Fringe (And Win Some Tickets, On Us!)

In honor of the New York Fringe Festival, we’re giving away tickets to one of this year’s funniest new shows.

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NYC Date Idea: Watch Pixar’s “Up” or “Wall-E” This Saturday Night At MoMA

Whether Pixar’s your thing or not, you won’t find a better “date night” atmosphere than MoMA on a summer evening!

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NYC Date Idea: Vintage 80′s Sports Posters As Art

Hilarious and oddly beautiful vintage sports posters, delicious comfort food, signature drinks. Perfect date.

NYC Giveaway: How about we… Check Out the Gen Art Film Festival

Ready to show your date what an urban sophisticate you are? We’re giving away two pairs of tickets to Night 3 of the Gen Art Film Festival!

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Culture Club: 5 Out-of-the-Ordinary Museum Dates in LA

This week, we bring you five unique and intriguing date ideas that involve LA area museums.

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The 7 Best Romance Comics And Graphic Novels

So we’ve talked about romance in movies, art, and literature, but readers have alerted us to a medium we’ve so far left unexplored: comics and graphic novels. So, we’ve asked three experts for their recommendations!

7 Great Museum Dates — Because Dates Are Like Field Trips, Only Better

Here are our seven favorite museum dates. Ready to feel cultured?

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Feeling Artistic? 10 Dates to Impress A Banksy Wannabe

To celebrate HowAboutWe’s 1-year anniversary, this month we’re rounding up our all-time favorite HowAboutWe dates posted by you, the users. First up: Our favorite artistic dates — some more legally-sanctioned than others.

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Forget the U-Haul: 10 Devilishly Good Girl-on-Girl Dates

Between defying gravity and seeking out bad art, these Boston date ideas blow dinner-and-a-movie right out of the water. Ashley Lucas, founder of Diffuse 5, curates 10 adorably adventurous queer-friendly dates.

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The 8 Most Iconic Images Of Love

We stumbled on a pretty great Quora question today: What are some iconic images of love? It’s a really fun question to think about!

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Kill ‘em with Class: 6 Kickass Cultural Dates in Boston

Cue the violins: Jonathan Carlson and Ina Chu of the Handel and Haydn Society put the classy in classical music with these adventurous cultural excursions in Boston.

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DC Date Contest: Win Free Tickets to ArtJamz

Sick of the typical date night? Here’s your chance to win two free tickets to ArtJamz! Spend a night drinking, eating and painting with old friends, and meet bunches of new ones on DC’s hottest new alternative date idea!

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A Love Poem For Every Romantic Situation

Do you read enough love poetry? I certainly don’t make it a part of my usual routine of TV and internet, but occasionally I’ll come across a poem and be completely shocked at how relevant it is to my love life.

Link Love: Craigslist Personals Poetry, Mona Lisa Was Da Vinci’s Boyfriend?

You HAVE to check out the insane pick-up artists featured on Jezebel. Also, was Mona Lisa really Leonardo Da Vinci’s boyfriend? Not sure we buy it…

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10 Tips For Planning The Perfect Museum Date

From planning the date to the perfect closing move, we’ve here’s how to optimize your museum trip to make a perfect and easy first date.