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Cover: top to bottom, left to right: Friends, 1995, the cast of the television show on NBC. Photo: Andrew Eccles. O.J. Simpson learns he has been found not guilty, Los Angeles, 3 October 1995. Photo: AP/Wideworld. Florine Stettheimer, Spring Sale at Bendel's (detail), 1921, oil on canvas, 50 x 40“. Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Hole Singer/guitarist Courtney Love. Photo: Bob King/RETNA. Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie (detail), 1942-43, oil on canvas, 50 x 50”. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Matthew Barney, Cremaster 4 (detail), 1994, production still from a color video, 42 minutes. Photo: Peter Stietman. From the Prada collection spring-summer 1995. Photo: Maria Chandoha Valentino. Larry Clark, from the Kids Portfolio, 1995, one of 15 C-Prints in an edition of 25, 15¾ x 18½“. Christian de Portzamparc, Cité de la Musique (view of the concert hall), 1995, Paris. Photo: Nicolas Borel. Gilbert & George, Human Shits (detail), 1994, dyed black and white photographs, ca. 99⅝ x 14'. From the series ”Naked Shit Pictures,“ 1994. Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 10 July 1995. Photo: AP/Wideworld. Bus advertisement for Calvin Klein Jeans, 1995. Photo: Impact Visuals. Absolutely Fabulous, 1992-95, still from the TV show on Comedy Central. Left to right: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Georg Baselitz, Das Motif: Giraffe (The motif: giraffe; detail), 1988, oil on canvas, 51⅛ x 38¼ ”.

December 1995 Vol. 34, No. 4

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In this issue

Douglas Coupland on On and Off Line

Wayne Koestenbaum on the Art of the Fugue

Jon Savage on the Graying of Rock ’n' Roll

Richard Martin on Couture Culture

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December 1995 Vol. 34, No. 4

In this issue

Douglas Coupland on On and Off Line

Wayne Koestenbaum on the Art of the Fugue

Jon Savage on the Graying of Rock ’n' Roll

Richard Martin on Couture Culture