But "tourist art" isn't the pejorative designation it once was, and authenticity as a concept is being rethought.

And as examples of conceptual art, folk art, tourist art, and visual chronicles and critiques, they offer images of 21st-century realities, including our own, absolutely worth pondering.

Judging from what is on view here, he does not seem to have bought any more tourist art.

In the early years of the Batuan genre art, Batuan artists explored subjects that concerned themselves rather than creating tourist art.

It is commonly known as a tourist art because of the circumstances surrounding its creation and the subject matter which it often contained.

In truth, argillite carving is much more than a simple tourist art.

A more exquisite example of "tourist" art, past or present, is impossible to imagine.

A hip-hop exhibition necessarily blurs the line between ritual objects and tourist art.

"That's tourist art, bought from a peddler outside the Museum of Modern Art," she says.

He conjures commercial graphics, thrift-shop painting, Renaissance Madonnas or tourist art, as in the textured starfish in "Etoile."