CUSTOMIZED: ART INSPIRED BY HOT RODS, LOWRIDERS & AMERICAN CAR CULTURE opens at the ICA, 955 Boylston St., on Oct.

The exhibit of ALICE NEEL's vibrant portraits organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens today at the Addison Gallery

"Salon" One sure mark of a good piece of art is that it tempts the viewer to touch it. Unfortunately,

IN THE SOUTH END BROMFIELD GALLERY 560 Harrison Ave., 4th Floor (T: Broadway) Wed-Sat: 12-5 p.m. 617-451-3605 This stalwart cooperative

In the promotional material for "1999: Celebrating Boston's Artists," a year-long project organized by the Boston Art Dealers Association, a

The difficulty of seeing art-especially contemporary art-in Boston has less to do with a simple lack than with inefficient distribution.

The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium By Edward Gorey Harcourt Brace 64pp., $15 Following last year's

Book Review Feeding the Eye: Essays by Anne Hollander 352 pp., $27 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Nothing annoys independent critic

ABELARDO MORELL AND THE CAMERA EYE At the MFA Through Apr. 11 During the 16 hours that Abelardo Morell's camera