JOHN BALDESSARI PICTURE IN A FRAME

Since 1970, he has applied his intelligence and wit to a study of the visual realities of the media, film, and art worlds. In text p ictures, photographic works, videos, collages, and cut-ups, he toys with standards and stereotypes, rendering images unfamiliar by i nserting blanks and superimpositions or combining text and imagery. Yet he never displays the high seriousness of conceptual art/ hi s is the smile of the sage who is asking the right questions.