Centerpieces

We can start by IDing some of the images given, but we quickly find that these phrases tend to be nonsense by themselves. Certain phrases when googled however, such as BLUEBERRY TRAIN and PSYCHIC FIRE, will show up as songs from the franchise Love Live!, further confirmed by the flavortext mentioning “love” these “lively” pieces of art. Each of these songs also has one specific character as the center of the song (or in some cases are the solo singer).

In the center of each image, we also find a symbol repeated some number of times. More searching leads us to find that these are the character icons for different characters in Love Live! as well.

Lastly, we combine the centers of each image. To do so, we can see that each pair of characters has a list of duo songs, of which only 1 has the specified starting letter to go with the title.

Image	Art Song	Song Center	Character Icon	Duo Song	Icon Count	Extracted letter
	Amazing Travel DNA	Hanamaru	Ruby	Kimochi mo Yume mo Issho da ne!	5	C
	Love wing bell	Rin	Maki	Beat in Angel	2	E
	Binetsu Kara Mystery	Umi	Kotori	Anemone heart	2	N
	Angelic Angel	Eli	Umi	Storm in Lover	2	T
	Meccha Going!!	Ai	Karin	Love Triangle	4	E
	Strawberry Trapper	Riko	You	Misty Frosty Love	7	R
	CheerDay CheerGirl!	Honoka	Rin	Mermaid festa vol.2 ~Passionate~	16	P
	PSYCHIC FIRE	Nico	Nozomi	Otome Shiki Ren'ai Juku	3	O
	HAPPY PARTY TRAIN	Kanan	Chika	Natsu no Owari no Amaoto ga	11	R
	Koi ni Naritai AQUARIUM	You	Yoshiko	Jimo Ai ♡ Mantan ☆ Summer Life	10	T
	Cutie Panther	Maki	Nico	Zurui yo Magnetic today	8	M
	Shooting Star Warrior	Mari	Kanan	Namida ga Yuki ni Naru Mae ni	10	U
	Kokoro Kirarara	Kanon	Keke	Tiny Stars	5	S
	Blueberry♥Train	Kotori	Hanayo	Suki desu ga Suki desu ka?	6	E
	LOVELESS WORLD	Nozomi	Eli	Garasu no Hanazono	6	U
	1STAR	Ruby	Dia	Manatsu wa Dare no Mono?	16	M

Reading off our final list of duo songs and indexing by the number of the character icon that originally appeared in each image (ignoring non-alphabetic characters) gives us the cluephrase CENTERPORT MUSEUM. Looking this up, we can find that this refers to the Vanderbilt Museum, giving us our final answer VANDERBILT.

Authors' Notes

I was surprised to hear from my co-author that there was a Vanderbilt museum located in Centerport after we had already decided on the mechanics to the puzzle, so having a randomly thematic cluephrase was a nice stroke of luck.

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Kotori best waifu.