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TURF: URBAN LIVING

You see dead people: a Hindu figurine made from a Seattle photographer.

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Bone-a-Fide

Charles Krafft's blunt memorials.

Land of ice, yin-yang, and garbage.

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Frozen Prose

Two memoirs show different aspects of one very cold place.

Fleurs du Moi (2002): meticulously yucky but hogging all the room for imagination.

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Control Creep

The fussy nightmares of Jim Woodring.

James Turrells Skyspace: the routine made hypnotic.

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Aisle of Sky

No, I'm not stonedjust tripping on the Henry's new sight line to heaven.

Whimsey and nationalism: James Reid's Army Men sliced in half.

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Dead Calm

A quiet look back at Sept. 11.

Who Killed Slobo?

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Who Killed Slobo?

Two recent titles show how power grabs and secret plots never go out of style. Or print.

The Partsong shuffle: hip, arty, meaningless.

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Dead Zone

Stumbling through the clichés of avant-gardism at Sand Point.

Brian Calvins Nowhere Boogie:bigger than it ought to be.

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Coasting

Baja to Vancouver' has its pleasures, but why do they all seem so familiar?

Michael Spafford

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Michael Spafford

It’s hard to talk about Michael Spafford’s pictures without sounding like a pretentious art professor—oh, look at the…

Graphic dispatches from the unconscious: Jameson's Three Bunting Dress.

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Protection Racket

Insulating us from danger, Elizabeth Jameson heightens the anxiety.

The Home Front

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The Home Front

Do we have to hate America in order to get out of Iraq? Two new titles provide a…

Rhonda Lane Howard (left) and Rebecca Richards: Thread on a shoestring.

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Slick Indie

The museum refugees at Thread are buffing up Seattle's low-budget art world.

Pissing off the building inspectors: Chris Burden's high-rise for one.

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Wow House

L.A. artists create semiplausible dwellings.