Article: The incredulity of Bowie's created genius; ARTS IN BRIEF.

Article: Nat Tate? A (bogus) American legend
AP Online;  April 10, 1998 ;     538 words ... ... the boozy, tortured life of artist Nat Tate. The rock star knew what the assembled glitterati did not: Nat Tate never existed. Obscure American abstract impressionist Nathwell ``Nat'' Tate was the invention of British author ...

Article: The Arts: Nat Tate, my part in his creation The ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ...THE origins of "Nat Tate" go back a fair distance. In 1987 I ... to hand. And so I duly did, and so Nat Tate was born, lived for three decades and ... started factoring real people into the Nat Tate story: the poet Frank O'Hara, Georges ...

Article: YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF NAT TATE? LITERARY HOAX ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 11, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... U.S. release of a biography of Nat Tate, a gifted but obscure artist who ... never to be seen again. But had Nat Tate ever been seen in the first place ... admitting at least to myself) of Nat Tate,'' Lister recalled this week ...

Article: The Arts: A bridge too far He was the darling of the Fifties New ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... label beside it to know it was by Nat Tate. It was undated, but I knew it ... Schwitters. "I like bridges," Nat Tate once told an acquaintance, "so ... river underneath." Nathwell - "Nat" - Tate was born on the March 7, 1928 ...

Article: The late great Tate: an artist is rediscoverd; April Fool. ...
Newsweek;  April 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... recited from William Boyd's book "Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928-1960 ... existed. In fact, he hadn't. "Nat Tate" was a figment of novelist Boyd ... Todd Heuber." Other features of "Nat Tate" are slightly--and deliciously ...

Article: Two Tates and a lot of tat
The Spectator;  May 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ...NAT TATE by William Boyd 21 Press, L9.95, pp. 67 THE TATE by Frances Spalding Tate Gallery Publications, L25, pp. 308 The ... always will be. William Boyd's life of Nat Tate was one of those events which exposed this ...

Article: Letter: Tate fund-raiser
The Independent - London;  April 9, 1998 ;     355 words ...AS THE owner of two very fine Nat Tates, both mysteriously lost, I'm afraid, may I congratulate William Boyd ... traditions of our two great art institutions and be called, appropriately, The Nat Tate Gallery. MICHAEL PALIN London NW5