Thinly yet sensuously painted, the pictures glow like watercolors, and they call to mind artists like Bonnard and Alex Katz.

Black artists' work was rarely exhibited under apartheid, and politically minded artists like Mr. Maapola were persecuted.

Episodically strewn throughout the landscapes, these beings collectively evoke a catastrophic human comedy that calls to mind Western artists like Hieronymous Bosch, James Ensor and George Grosz.

Ranging from near-abstraction to dreamlike allegory, the video installations of Ms. Davies call to mind artists as various as Gary Hill and Bill Viola.

He's shot close-up from behind, so you can't make out his face, an image that summons to mind artists like Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Longo all at once.

The canvases bring to mind several American artists - Avery, Marsden Hartley and, in front of "Soleil Couchant," from about 1920, George Inness.

The sense of personal urgency is mitigated, however, by an artistically derivative look that calls to mind artists like Terry Winters, Julian Schnabel and Roberto Juarez.

There's a certain generic sexualtity about these figures that calls to mind other artists of the 1960's, like Tom Wesselmann or Allen Jones.

I don't mind artists changing lyrics when it comes to covers, but what Cee Lo did was just sloppy and cowardly.

The swollen silence and formal grace of her work brings to mind other artists of her generation like Martin Puryear and Vija Celmins.