Andres Serrano’s Back With More Gross Art

Anyone who picked up the Village Voice this morning and turned to Lynn Yaeger’s cover story on page 14 was met with a stomach-churning surprise that may have ruined their already unpleasant subway commute to work—a vivid, closeup pile of human excrement belonging to the artist Andres Serrano.

Mr. Serrano is perhaps best Read More

The Convert Was Crazy, But Then Again, Who Isn’t?

Abdul Rahman had to live 41 years before he became an international celebrity. He did that overnight when he got into a child-custody fight with his family, who let it out that Mr. Rahman had converted to Christianity—something you do not lightly do in Afghanistan.

Actually, Mr. Rahman is supposed to have abandoned Allah for Read More

Fashion Week Was a Total Joy-Occasionally Even on the Runway

A close friend recently succeeded in pushing her psychotherapist over the edge. Despite years of exhaustive therapy, my adorably neurotic chum was never quite able to exit her particular psychological cul-de-sac. Suddenly last summer, the drained and frustrated shrink finally snapped. In an unapologetically unethical outburst, the frenzied therapist operatically denounced her longtime patient as Read More