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Your Dad Sylvester Stallone Is The Best Art Gallery Guide In The World

"Nothin' better than art." *fumbles with phone forever*

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You know that delightful person who took you around the NGA and meticulously explained the life and practice of Jackson Pollock and the historical context of Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly paintings? How about the trilingual art scholar at the Louvre who walked you through a detailed history of the Renaissance as if they were Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code?

Both those people are now complete garbage in comparison to beloved action star-turned-dad who’s perpetually had one too many whiskeys Sylvester Stallone. The Rocky star documented his visit to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on Instagram last week and I never want to step into a gallery without him by my side ever again.

By Borna Sammak interesting right?

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Remembering a great artist and friend…

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The great artist Gerhard Richter

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Still wandering around the Museum in Atlanta

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Fun fact: Sylvester Stallone is also an artist. He’s made and sold literally hundreds of paintings over the past four decades many of which depict Rocky in vivid expressionistic strokes. Also, in fairness, he’s much more eloquent about this kind of stuff off Instagram: