What am I bid?

by Phelps Gates

       
     
           
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A.   artist Judy __ (The Dinner Party)

B.   technological, often playful school of art and culture
(Paul Virilio)

C.  
avant-garde movement in music, religion, art, architecture

D.   unusually-shaped David Koontz building in Bedford,
PA (2 wds)

E.   Afghan province meaning "land of infidels" (former
name)

F.   employees; cane

G.   1992 biopic starring Jack Nicholson

H.   look at (colloq.)

I.   method of reproducing art or, more often, printed
circuit boards

J.   period when someone (e.g., an artist) is most successful
and popular

K.   where most paintings start out

L.   partial refund

M.   spinner of platters

N.   like abstract art

O.   concerned with emotions rather than depiction of
external reality

P.   being non-committal and intentionally vague

Q.   "All things are cheap to the ___, dear to the wasteful."
(Poor Richard)

R.   miscellany (3 wds)

S.   famous sculpture signed "R. Mutt" (English name)

T.   shinbone

U.   weighed in the hand

V.   noncommittal, intentionally vague

W.   "Pay as you go" system started during WWII (2 wds)

X.   prepared for publication

Y.   restricted to requested works (e.g., an art exhibit)

Z.   unscrupulous capitalist (2 wds)

AA.   one who fails to repay a debt