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  • "Lesbian Art in America" by Harmony Hammond

    This new book is as much about the history of lesbians in this country as it is about their art.
  • The grotesque and the gold

    Artist Ralph Steadman is a people-loving, Nietzsche-reading, ink-splattering grump. And he doesn't think Hunter S. Thompson should have a gun.
  • The one-eared bandit

    Big bucks drive the van Gogh accessory business.
  • A trip to the Tate Modern

    England's newest art cause cilhbre is a massive power station turned gallery on the banks of the Thames.
  • Blue Girl's blue period

    The bluest performance artist around has the paint-and-nipple market cornered.
  • Joel-Peter Witkin

    Is his darkly imaginative photography an intellectually camouflaged freak show or high art?
  • The man who made gays macho

    A new book about Tom of Finland says the artist was the first to show homosexual masculinity.
  • Artistes made daily

    Our expert directs travelers to French art workshops, Disneyland/Grand Canyon vacations and flight-tracking Web sites.
  • All this useful beauty

    The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical?
  • Why do elephants paint?

    Well, because there's a shortage of jobs in the logging industry these days. And, no, as a matter of fact, they don't sell their canvases for peanuts.
  • The trouble with the Whitneys

    Artwork that slams Rudy Giuliani's reaction to "Sensation" leads to a little dynastic squabble that may cause the family to withdraw its name -- and not-so-little fortune -- from the museum.
  • The writing on the wall

    Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt doesn't do his own work, doesn't make originals and doesn't follow his own rules. Thirty years on, he's still making people nervous.
  • Put your cat clothes on

    Between the Beatles' flashy suits and Madonna's damn-the-torpedoes bustier, "Rock Style" examines the finest frippery in music.
  • The other beauty myth

    At the turn of the century, with Picasso behind and Matthew Barney in front, does beauty still matter?
  • "How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway?" by John Heilpern

    A passionate critic tosses a few firebombs at the New York theater.
  • "I'm a pure insider"

    "It Hurts" author Matthew Collings on the uselessness of secular critics, Warhol's sincere cynicism and how one avoids annoying art-speak.
  • Sacré bleu!

    Why are Catholics so set on dogging "Dogma"?
  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it Spike Gillespie who should be restrained? Plus: Michael Lewis' bogus attack on J-schools; art should be about seeing, not theorizing.
  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
  • Who needs the NEA, anyway?

    Announcing ... the Your Town Here Arts & Lectures fall season, featuring Anglo-Saxon-American jazz puppet theater!
  • "West Beirut"

    Tarantino cameraman Ziad Doueiri's excellent directorial debut tracks teenagers coming of age in a sophisticated city devastated by war.
  • Millennial Brigadoon

    The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert invents a hyper-real space, a republic of drugs, nudity and spectacle.
  • The sounds of science

    British electronic musician Scanner's illicit phone taps examine the technology of communication and the vanishing border between public and private space.
  • "Promoting exposure of a person"

    Artist Spencer Tunick is in hot water with the NYPD for attempting to photograph 150 nude people in Times Square.
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