An astute observer of the realms of both politics and portraiture must by now know that Rudy Giuliani is a man of many faces. He's America's mayor, a gun-hating 'bortion-craving conservative. He frowns on civil liberties. He's married, then unmarried and then married again, sometimes to cousins. And yet Catholic. He had cancer. He's a pupa, a chrysalis and a butterfly! Also he is the World Trade Center. Through the throes of his complex and multi-hued transformations, Philip Burke has captured the man for the pages of the New York Observer and sometimes for the New Yorker. What can these paintings tell us about their subject—and hey, about ourselves?