• The "look but don't touch" girls

    Louis Meisel, the king of the pinup, celebrates the goddesses of all-American flesh.
  • So many women, so little time

    Young and old, fat and thin -- Jan Saudek's camera makes love to them all.
  • Body Schatz

    A collection of nudes by a photographer interested in "letting the gods in" emphasizes sensuality without being graphic.
  • Butlers in love

    Mark Stock's most famous series of paintings depicts tuxedoed men in various obsessive poses.
  • Hello dolly

    Photographer David Levinthal shoots dolls in poses so erotically charged that the figures seem real.
  • Voluptuous curves

    The curator of the "Erotic Picasso" show in Paris talks about why the artist's most ribald work probably won't come to the U.S.
  • Show me your panties!

    Photographer Roy Stuart is the prince of Parisian up-the-skirt erotica.
  • Divine decadence

    Helmut Newton is a connoisseur of contemporary sex and death.
  • The saga of the Bra Ball

    It is a tale about art, commerce, intellectual property, technology and gender. And thousands of bras, of course.
  • Pierre et Gilles

    An enduring couple make glittery photographs filled with myth, camp and homoeroticism.
  • It's art!

    An Austrian museum hires women to parade naked -- except for boots -- at an opening party.
  • Using her body

    Artist Renée Cox talks about the recent furor over her work, Mayor Giuliani, religion and growing up black in Scarsdale.
  • "Pollock"

    Actor Ed Harris' charged biopic of the abstract painter is not quite the divine mess it should be.
  • Feast for the eyes

    Salon Sex art galleries, from the Kinsey collection to Japanese erotic prints, are sensual visual experiences.
  • In the realm of the senses

    Toshio Saeki, Japan's master of erotic illustration, devours the world with his demented images of outré sex.
  • Portrait of an artist

    Trevor Fairbrother's new book shows that John Singer Sargent was not only a painter of the rich but a sensualist in everything he did.
  • The art of recovery

    At U.S. Customs, finding and retrieving stolen paintings takes an old master -- and sometimes an aesthetic connection with the thief.
  • Have yourself a horny little Christmas

    Racy books that are also artful can be the best gift of all.
  • The art of innovation

    What Silicon Valley is trying to do now, Cézanne and Picasso achieved decades ago.
  • "Politics"

    An artist who challenged Jesse Helms and George Bush's "decency clause" 10 years ago remembers what it was like to be called the "chocolate smeared young woman."
  • Art for Armani's sake

    New York's institutions of high culture are unashamedly selling out to high fashion.
  • Art for politics' sake

    By Ray Sawhill
  • The game of art

    In the exhibit "Screenshots," tragedy is rendered in a playful resolution.
  • Art for politics' sake

    A critic of the NEA and Harvard talks about the narrow-minded, shock-obsessed contemporary art scene.
  • Ryan McGinness

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