Interesting artists seem to pop out of Germany like circus clowns from a Volkswagen.
Maybe it's in the blood, maybe it's the water, but German artists keep ending up in New York galleries. Bock takes the spirit of Beuys to new enchanted levels. To describe the new work is to be irked by it, which makes these good-looking pictures that much more amazing. Other than adding a growth of beard here or making a pink pinker, Ruff doesn't do much to the originals. More important, Ruff has breathed fresh air into his art, found a way around the annoying logjam that beleaguered his work for several years, and transformed the almost unlovable into something sexy.