NoLab is a novel with a comic bent; it's a crime story, a buddy "flick," an art world commentary, a love story. NoLab might be what happens when Lethal Weapon is crossed with My Dinner with Andre. Artists Ray Lawson and Victor Florian search for NoLab, a collaborative of artist provocateurs that has gone missing. Their search becomes a romp through the art and ideas of a progressive, conceptually oriented subculture of the art world. They...