In the galleries, too, looking is becoming obsolete, perhaps because the work of hot artists seldom gives off real creative heat.

Vicki Vann is one of country music's hottest new artists.

The prime market for Washburn's guitars is young men who want to be like the hot artist of the moment.

For one thing, "there's no way of knowing whether today's hot artists will be popular years from now," he writes.

The hottest new abstract artist in town has reason to celebrate.

Michael soon became one of the hottest artists in the corporate events market.

As soon as he finds a hot new artist, he'll be back on top again.

And set out on a guerrilla marketing campaign to be this summer's hot artist of the Hamptons.

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"If you're a hot artist, things like this are going to come automatically," he says.