It was just as the old tourist postcards used to say: wish you were here.

But it remains a wistful diagram, rarely closer to three dimensions than the outsize, hand-tinted tourist postcards that frame the set.

Yet often the show resembles the giant reproductions of hand-painted tourist postcards that figure prominently in Adrianne Lobel's sets.

It is the main symbol and tourist postcard of the city and the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

And I hate tourist postcards.

Dieter Roth's "Six Piccadillies" is six versions of a tourist postcard.

However discomfiting it may be to see the Postal Service so easily toyed with, his array of altered tourist postcards feels most of all like good playful fun.

We went to that café with the tourist postcards rattling on their metal lattices in the dusty wind, on the street called Libreros.

He prints tourist postcards of a Soviet psychiatric hospital and Tomsk's K.G.B. building.

A tourist postcard recently arrived from Charles Coon of Gloucester, Mass., who represented the United States in world championship competition 26 years ago.