They shared a small, cluttered studio and were proto-Bohemians, living an art-centered, economically straitened, culturally rich existence.

In fact, he is in a small, hot, cluttered studio, wearing headphones and fidgeting with a pen, taking 40 to 50 calls an hour.

What I've just completed, and what I could not get a good look at in my cluttered studio, comes to light in a formal gallery space.

"Seeing this magazine changed my life," Ms. Amer says as she tries to unearth the publication in her cheerful, cluttered studio in Harlem.

On this day, his cluttered studio was filled with pieces he was tuning up for the Whitney show.

Bounding from one part of the cluttered studio to another, Mr. Shore picks up an mug-size aluminum trash can.

"The Box," for example, is an extreme tour de force of perceptual disorientation: a re-creation of Mr. McCarthy's cluttered studio turned on its side.

Their approval was so strong it was almost tangible, filling the big cluttered studio with sound.

But in an interview at his cluttered studio in downtown Istanbul, he insisted that he is merely a "press photographer."

The small eyes took in the cluttered studio, scanning the walls as though in search of something.