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"  The artist Marilyn Minter also has a way with glamour, although her approach to the subject\u2014huge photo-realist canvases and video screens of lips, skin, sweat, and glitter\u2014verges on terrifying. Long an art name, she&amp;#039;s recently become a pop- culture force, too. She stays grounded with retreats to her modernist house in the woods. ELLE: Madonna is using your video Green Pink Caviar on her Sticky &amp;amp;amp; Sweet tour, you&amp;#039;re collaborating with M.A.C Cosmetics, and you&amp;#039;ve designed an awesome bag for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You&amp;#039;ve been busy! How do you escape? Marilyn Minter: I need one day a week where I do nothing at my house in Cold Spring, New York. I go up there religiously, all seasons, with my husband and two dogs, Rally, a Shiba Inu, and Gypsy, a border collie mix. We also foster border collies at Glenhighlandfarm.com. I&amp;#039;m an animal lover. Haven&amp;#039;t been able to eat one in 22 years. ELLE: Your work is so...glammy, I wouldn&amp;#039;t have thought\u2014 MM: That I was an animal-loving vegetarian? Oh yeah, big time. That&amp;#039;s why I photographed Pamela Anderson [in 2007]. She works with PETA. Our house is green. Geothermal heat, Hardie Board facade. It was built in 2000; we saw the future! We asked an architect husband of a friend of mine, Stan Allen. Now he&amp;#039;s Princeton&amp;#039;s architecture dean and won&amp;#039;t return our calls. No, he does. [Laughing] ELLE: Are you inspired by nature? MM: No! My work is totally artificial. The country is to work and read. I just finished Malcolm Gladwell&amp;#039;s Outliers. ELLE: How does it feel to read Outliers when you are an outlier? MM: Reassuring. I seemed like the least likely to succeed. I&amp;#039;m from a cultural desert in central Florida\u2014a bad kid, always in trouble. I wouldn&amp;#039;t still be an artist if I had come to New York a few years later. I wouldn&amp;#039;t have been able to get my cheap loft. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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