Anselm Kiefer at MOMA. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

From: National Review | Date: March 10, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

GIVEN THE aggressive and unabashed Germanness of the Anselm Kiefer retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, it was fitting that, as I passed through its lugubrious halls, I found myself thinking of those famous words of Luther before the Diet of Worms: "I cannot and I will not retract, for it is neither safe nor advisable to act at variance with one's own conscience. "

The truth is that we critics have to put up with a great deal of browbeating and intimidation. That this coercion is as subtle as it is constant in no way minimizes its power, causing even the most ...

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