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Magazine Article
The Artists' Artists
2009
Overview
ELAD USSRY \"Art of Two Germanys\" (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Aside from this show's sociopolitical importance, and how carefully It travels through the complicated and layered history of twentieth-century Germany, what really won me over was seeing many of my favorite contemporary artists - Genzken, Trockel, Schütte, the Bechers, Palermo, Farocki, and Polke - under one roof and contextualized by their historical antecedents in a single exhibition. Los Angeles Lying on the carpet in the back corner of a dark screening room, hiding from other museum visitors and absorbing the shot of Black Flag's Henry Rollins writhing onstage at the beginning of Rock My Religion, 1982-84, 1 thought: FRED WILSON Nick Cave, \"Recent Soundsults\" (Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Cave's otherworldly costumed characters - some festooned with toys, ceramic birds, and beaded fabric, some covered with human hair in vibrant colors - made an oddly comfortable contrast with his sculptures incorporating lawn jockeys, that genre of antique racist American statuary which is also now classified blandly (and without a hint of irony) under the rubric \"black collectibles.\"
