Some people are exploring these issues instead of talking jive. This month at the New York gallery Triple Candie, curators Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett and other fabricators made imperfect copies of works by the stubbornly reclusive artist Cady Noland, detailing their production in wall labels that compare them to the real works. How these are made is more important than what they are. The terrific Village Voice critic Jerry Saltz registered his ambivalence about the show, calling it "challenging," "radical," and "fascinating" before suggesting Noland get herself a lawyer. "In a way, Cady Noland Approximately makes one believe in artistic aura again," he wrote. Aura is like God. We desire it as much as we doubt it.