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2000 Stories by Vince Aletti

• Photo Ops

  published December 12, 2000

  At this time of year, there's no time to waste, so can we just get right down to it? What follows is a wildly idiosyncratic selection of... More >>

• Art & Entertainment

  published November 28, 2000

  Though it's likely to get savaged by the art world, Ed Harris's sensational Pollock (in movie theaters mid-month) is just as likely to make... More >>

• The Lady Vanishes

  published November 14, 2000

  Cindy Sherman became famous by taking her own picture, but keeping herself out of it. Countless other selves, some of them male, occupied her... More >>

• Working-Class Hero

  published September 19, 2000

  "This is where it all happens," Saul Fletcher says, ushering me into a large, sparsely furnished room on the second story of his house on London's... More >>

• Photographic Memory

  published September 5, 2000

  The fall season is studded with photography shows that should provide a solid, if spotty, grounding in the history of the medium and some much... More >>

• The Boys of Summer

  published August 1, 2000

  "I'm a man. I have a penis." Tom Ford's recent admission to the Times' Cathy Horyn came as no surprise to readers of international fashion... More >>

• Show of Shows

  published July 11, 2000

  My attention wanders at this time of year. Everything interests me—and nothing. Wafting through the galleries in a sunstruck daze, at once... More >>

• The Call of the Wild

  published June 13, 2000

  A tiny photo-booth portrait of a woman in a '40s suit and waved coiffure, her back to the camera. A seriously blurred snapshot of two young men in... More >>

• Amour No More

  published May 23, 2000

  To the trio of avowedly autobiographical novels—A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell... More >>

• For Muniz, the Medium is the Message

  published May 16, 2000

  Vik Muniz, the prolific Brazilian-born photo-conceptualist whose earlier works involved sugar, soil, wire, thread, cotton balls, and chocolate... More >>

• Body and Soul

  published May 2, 2000

  A portrait is a kind of public performance, a one-person show calculated to seduce, astonish, confound, or repel its audience. The artist making... More >>

• American Women

  published April 11, 2000

  From Julia Margaret Cameron to Imogen Cunningham to Nan Goldin, women photographers have often made other women their subjects. What these... More >>

• Finding the Modern Tradition’s Common Denominator

  published March 21, 2000

  "Making Choices," the second installment of MOMA's ongoing, radical, and increasingly provocative reshuffling of its collection, tackles the... More >>

• You Can't Go Home Again

  published March 14, 2000

  Ellen Brooks made an indelible first impression in the mid '70s when she showed studio portraits of nude adolescents, touchingly vulnerable and... More >>

• Space Case

  published February 29, 2000

  Spit, blood, whiskers, and nail clippings. Jello, Windex, a slice of Wonder Bread, a Zippo lighter. Beer, vodka, mold, wallpaper, bottles, kitchen... More >>

• Shot Through the Heart

  published February 1, 2000

  Although 1999 saw no letup in the boom of exceptional photography books, this year's list of the chosen few has been scaled back to a neater, more... More >>

• The Great Escape

  published January 11, 2000

  The buzz around a new artist doesn't usually reverberate much beyond a small circle of interested parties—collectors, critics, gallery... More >>