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...prism is "a medium that distorts, slants, or colors whatever is viewed through it." Prism also happens to be the title of one of the works in the show-Imants Tillers' 1986 painting, from a private collection in Sydney. Assembled on 165 canvas boards and referencing both Expressionist Georg Baselitz's figure of a German soldier and Timmy Payungka Japangardi's Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming, this postmodern picture puzzle announces the exhibition's intriguing but not wholly convincing contention-that multicultural voices and Aboriginal culture have colonized Australian art. "That's really the message we have-lots of cultural...
...anticlimax. Much has been expected of Polke. He is one of the two painters--the other being Anselm Kiefer--who rose to the top of the enormously promoted pack of "new" German artists in the 1980s and remained there when others dropped away or became, like Georg Baselitz, with his crude upside-down figures, formulaic bores...
...next 30 years. Naturally, this made Boyd seem provincial, against the dominant currents of international abstract art. Then came the '80s, and with them a figurative revival -- conducted, for the most part, by shallow rhetorical artists, media- hypnotized Americans and hot-'n'-heavy Germans. But Boyd, unlike Georg Baselitz and other cultural sausagemakers, didn't have ministries and art magazines pushing his work while a worldwide dealer and museum network pulled it. He never got on the Postmodernist menu...
Bonito Oliva's curatorial "method" has been to jumble works together in the Italian pavilion under the title "The Cardinal Points of Art." The result is a shambles, featuring the usual notables from Joseph Beuys to Georg Baselitz, interfused with less famous figures and a large photography section. Many of the individual works are worth seeing -- or reseeing, since not a few have been round the international circuit already -- but since this is one of the worst-hung shows in recent memory, it is quite hard to do even that...
...Georg Baselitz--works of one of the leading post-War German artists. Through Feb. 16. Fogg Art Museum, Werner Otto Hall, 32 Quincy...