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January 18, 1999
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- MRIs and X-rays can save lives as medical tools. But can they inspire the soul as artistic works?

An MRI of performance artist Laurie Anderson's brain, the 1911 X-ray of a skull with two bullet holes and reproductions of slivers of human anatomy specimens are only a few of the oddities bringing crowds to the Julie Saul Gallery.

Correspondent Jeanne Moos finds out that artistic beauty is more than skin deep -- no bones about it.