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Sarah Lucas's 1999 sculpture Cigarette Tits II- a black bra encasing large, round breasts made of cigarette butts and hung on the back of an old wooden school chair- faces Lisa Yuskavage's Heart (1996-97), a painting in red and pink tones of a kneeling, naked young woman with prominent upturned breasts, fingering herself in ecstasy. Though Christie's biomorphic spheroids, floral balloons, calyxes, serpentine stems, wormholes, and floating nude humanoids have been influenced by such varied sources as early science-fiction film, Utopian pneumatic architecture, and surrealism, her vision is utterly original.
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Dorothy Iannone: 'Lioness'The New Museum of Contemporary Art235 Bowery, 212-219-1222Through October 18In 1961, after being prevented from bringing Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer wfa the U.S., Dorothy !annone su...See the full content of this document
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