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Picasso's buried treasure

By Barbara Tannenbaum — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Using X-rays and Silicon Valley technology, conservators have discovered a previously unknown painting behind the artist's "Rue de Montmartre."

Rivals and revolutionaries

By Stephanie Zacharek — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

"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.

Voluptuous curves

By Debra Ollivier — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

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.

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000

Joel-Peter Witkin

By Cintra Wilson — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Is his darkly imaginative photography an intellectually camouflaged freak show or high art?

"Day of the Bees" by Thomas Sanchez

By Rachel King — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

A Picasso-like painter and his muse and model play out a tale of love and lust in occupied France.

All this useful beauty

By Sarah Vowell — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

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?

The trouble with the Whitneys

By Frank Houston — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

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 North American intellectual tradition

By Camille Paglia — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

To hell with European philosophers: The breakthroughs of non-European thinkers are the 1960s' greatest legacy.

Power Suits, Inc.

By Amy Reiter — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Saul Obarzanek, tailor to the political stars, on Tipper, the nipper and presidential zippers. Plus: The Body's got a mouth.

Gertrude and Alice

By Amy Benfer — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

When Alice B. Toklas met Gertrude Stein, she heard bells ring. They went on to have one of the happiest marriages of the 20th century.

Hillary, Naomi, Susan and Rush. Sheesh!

By Camille Paglia — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Clinton requires emergency intervention; Wolf's mind is amazingly slack; Faludi's "Stiffed" is a stiff. Meanwhile, Limbaugh brings a genuine intellectual service to American culture.

Party pooper

By Jason Turbow — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Tom Winkler ditched his dream job on "The Simpsons" to focus on feces full-time.

"Surreal Lives" by Ruth Brandon

By Lawrence Osborne — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

A deliciously gossipy group biography of the surrealists.

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Salon's TV picks for
Weekend, Oct. 15-17, 1999

Paris, disguised

By Victoria L. Tilney — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

I flew across an ocean to discover my lover wore a mask. But the city let me see through it.

Obits this week

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Robert J. Lapham, former president of Condé Nast; jazz composer and saxophonist Ernie Wilkins; Anne Sheafe Miller, the first patient saved by penicillin.

Art for money's sake

By -- Mark Swartz — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

Chicago hosts the biggest fine art fair in America.

The Awful Truth

By Cintra Wilson — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:09:00 PDT

You want art? Look through the hole in the token, jiveasses