John Currin makes paintings that no one can love unambiguously—except maybe Juggs, the magazine of choice for breast men. Describing his images of balloon-boobed women as "a mind-blowing art experience," Juggs lauded Currin for "paying attention to the worthy theme of big tits." Others have been less kind. Even when he was painting relatively mild pictures of anorexic ladies-who-lunch and overweight matrons, critics went moralistic around him, branding his work "obscene," "phallocentric," "terminally cynical," and "classist." Writing about his 1992 exhibition in these pages, Kim Levin ordered readers to... More >>>