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  • Soft shoulder

    "Curve" offers a curiously ambivalent look at female nudes -- from cheesecake feminist critique to women-as-sushi.
    By Glen Helfand December 5, 2003

  • Black garters and riding crops

    Photographer Ellen von Unwerth talks about her new S/M fantasy book, "Revenge," in which the wicked baroness finally gets what's coming to her.
    By David Bowman July 18, 2003

  • Barbie, Starbucks and freedom

    Much of the "illegal art" in a major copyright-infringement exhibition is just plain silly. But the giant corporations that dominate our culture want to squash it anyway.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 17, 2003

  • Naked vinyl

    Bachelor-bait record cover art of the 1950s and '60s focused on the essentials: Boobs, drinking and stag parties!
    By Glen Helfand June 27, 2003

  • The end of civilization

    The sacking of Iraq's museums is like a "lobotomy" of an entire culture, say art experts. And they warned the Pentagon repeatedly of this potential catastrophe months before the war.
    By Louise Witt April 17, 2003

  • Rivals and revolutionaries

    "Matisse Picasso," the blockbuster show of the decade, shows us how two modern-art titans saw each other across 50 years of dazzling creative competition.
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 25, 2003

  • Hunting Nazi art online

    Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 16, 2002

  • Paul Gauguin's erotic life

    He was cruel to his wife, drove van Gogh mad and delighted in impregnating women. The author of a Gauguin biography talks about why she loves his art anyway.
    By David Bowman August 2, 2002

  • Been there, smashed that

    From porcelain machine guns to plates commemorating hideous disasters, artist Charles Krafft's grimly satirical work sheds strange light on an age when terror is rattling our teacups. (With a portfolio of 14 photographs.)
    By Douglas Cruickshank May 30, 2002

  • Fornicating in the rowboat

    A correspondence concerning erotic 19th century lithographs with Hans-Jürgen Döpp
    By David Bowman April 26, 2002

  • The man from Neen

    Miltos Manetas, who sent 23 invisible U-Haul trucks to the Whitney Biennial, explains the "art" movement that's out to change the way we perceive technology, intellectual property and moving vans.
    By John Glassie March 21, 2002

  • Edo erotica

    Art from the city that would become Tokyo shows a 17th and 18th century world of pleasure that was sexual, theatrical, discreet and elegant.
    By Chris Moss February 7, 2002

  • Irving Penn's nudes

    Two New York shows highlight the photographer's brief sojourn into the world of women with lush, fleshy bodies.
    By David Bowman February 1, 2002

  • Jock Sturges

    The photographer of nude young women has been pilloried as a pornographer, but it's hard to think of a less voyeuristic photographer working.
    By Charles Taylor January 18, 2002

  • Male nudes, now

    Painters, photographers and sculptors show us their vision of the naked man today -- and it's more than abs, pecs and butts.
    By Glen Helfand January 11, 2002

  • Love motel

    Chas Ray Krider's photos unlock the noir sexuality of the quintessential American motor inn.
    By Stephen Lemons January 4, 2002

  • French twist

    Serge Normant, hairdresser to the stars, talks about relationships, balding, Ellen Barkin and his new book.
    By David Bowman December 7, 2001

  • Balthus' provocative poses

    One of modern art's lions shows us that sexual moments and nudity aren't necessarily erotic.
    By Max Garrone November 30, 2001

  • Who was Mona seducing?

    What does this Renaissance temptress, seemingly impervious to changing taste, tell us about the enduring nature of our own desire?
    By Jonathon Keats November 26, 2001

  • Naked men

    Photographer Rankin shoots guys acting out their undressed fantasies.
    By Glen Helfand November 16, 2001

  • Desire unbound

    The surrealists were funny, poetic and deeply transgressional all at the same time.
    By Graham Joyce October 5, 2001

  • The opposite of sex

    Andy Warhol, ultimate icon of pop, made painting an orgy and pornography an art form. But you'll never guess what he did between the sheets.
    By Jonathon Keats September 28, 2001

  • No laughing matter

    BANG! POW! ZAP! Online comics come under assault from the art form's old guard.
    By Damien Cave August 9, 2001

  • The case of the forwarded e-mail

    Online allegations of Nazi-looted art inspire a suit that could test the limits of Internet libel law.
    By Jori Finkel July 13, 2001

  • The "look but don't touch" girls

    Louis Meisel, the king of the pinup, celebrates the goddesses of all-American flesh.
    By David Bowman June 21, 2001
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