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1998 Stories by Vince Aletti

• Out of the Past

  published December 29, 1998

  In his extraordinary new book, The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan, photographer Fazal Sheikh writes about his first night at the refugee... More >>

• View Finders

  published December 15, 1998

  Gift books, especially photographic ones, should be about pleasure—about that delicate balance of sensual and intellectual stimulation you'll... More >>

• Look Who's Ticking

  published December 8, 1998

  From the beginning, Whitney Houston has been the most resistable of pop divas. This has very little to do with what her longtime mentor and... More >>

• Nude Awakening

  published December 1, 1998

  Fashion photographers have always flirted with nudity, partly for its uplifting echo of the classic ideal, partly for its transgressive kick in... More >>

• Life On Mars

  published November 10, 1998

  Newton makes photos that look like nothing so much as pure phenomena— explosive abstractions in black and white that give the viewer no... More >>

• It's the Shit

  published November 3, 1998

  London— There are several intelligent, deftly installed shows up in the city right now, including one of Picasso's ceramic work at... More >>

• Skin and Bone

  published October 6, 1998

  Everett Lewis's fitfully comic, pitifully pretentious soap opera about a trio of L.A. male escorts runs out of promise so quickly that only the... More >>

• The Luminous Beam

  published May 26, 1998

  "State of emergency is where I want to be," Björk sang over and over in her encore at Hammerstein Ballroom last week, but that's just where... More >>