Good clean fun? P. J. O’ Rourke once teased that “cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.” This collection sings to a similar tune. Taking the quotidian toilette and infusing it with a splash of the cinematic, the works in this collection transform personal grooming and bathing habits into petits récits of vulnerability, vanity, and voyeurism that are hardly squeaky clean. READ MORE
Neo-Expressionism, the last of the truly famous movements to sweep the art world, arose in the late 1970s as a reaction against the austere, cerebral cool of Minimalism and Conceptual art, combining richly applied paint and attention-grabbing artistic gestures in an attempt to revive the hotter heroics of painters like van Gogh and the Abstract Expressionists. READ MORE