Solution to Believe What You're Told
This puzzle consists of 10 sets of 2 images and a sentence. Each image is a famous (or not so famous but Google-able) painting with a face photoshopped onto it. The flavortext emphasizes that the artist is important: identifying the artist of each painting and reading the first letter of their last name (read down the left column and then the right) gives the phrase VIEW TOP DOG SOUTH MURAL. This, combined with the title ("Believe What You're Told"), clues that teams should go to the Southside location of Top Dog.
There is a large poster at the Southside location that contains all the faces. The faces have a distinct left-to-right ordering (see image below). Additionally, the sentence for each set of paintings about the "inspiration" of the artists refers to items that can be found in the Top Dog poster. The flavortext "tally" suggests that these items should be counted. This number can then be used as an index: indexing into the titles of the paintings to extract one letter and then ordering the letters by the face position in the poster gives the clue phrase VENUS OF URBINOS ARTIST: TITIAN.
Information about each painting, in the order (and two-column arrangement) that the paintings appear in the puzzle:
Artist | Painting | Face number | Inspiration item | Number in poster | Artist | Painting | Face number |
Vermeer, Johannes | View of Delft | 1 | Phone booth | 1 | Sargent, John Singer | Spanish Dancer | 5 |
Ingres, Jean Auguste | Virgil Reading to Augustus | 16 | Kite wings | 3 | Orchardson, William | Master Baby | 14 |
Ernst, Max | Cage, Forest, and Black Sun Cage | 7 | Bubbles | 5 | Uhde, Fritz von | Woman, Why Weepest Thou? | 3 |
Weir, Robert Walter | Embarkation of the Pilgrims | 10 | Guitarists | 3 | Tintoretto | Miracle of the Slave | 9 |
Turner, J. M. W. | Dutch Boats in a Gale | 4 | White dogs | 2 | Hopper, Edward | Nighthawks | 18 |
O'Keeffe, Georgia | Ram's Head, White Hollyhock, and Little Hills | 15 | Sunbathers | 2 | Monet, Claude | Poppies Blooming | 6 |
Picasso, Pablo | Dora Maar Au Chat | 13 | Bags of chips | 2 | Uccello, Paolo | Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood | 8 |
Degas, Edward | Waiting | 11 | Hare Krishnas | 3 | Rivera, Diego | Detroit Industry | 17 |
Orozco, Jose Clemente | Omnisciencia | 12 | Balloons | 3 | Absolon, Philip | Breakdown | 2 |
Gainsbourough, Thomas | Sunset | 19 | Straws | 4 | Lichtenstein, Roy | Pistol | 20 |