Stuffed Shirts.

If Hiroshi Sugimoto hadn't made his photos of the frozen figures in wax-museum displays and natural-history dioramas, someone else would have had to--they, seem virtually prescribed by the postmodern art doctors of the '80s. But I doubt any other artist would have managed Sugimoto's note of the uncanny, which seems to emerge from some quite untheoretical place. His show at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (Mar. 4-May 14) is billed as a departure--a return to the sites of earlier photographs in English, Dutch, and Japanese wax museums, this time to make individual, life-size "portraits" of the waxen effigies (revisiting the Apostles at the Last Supper, the six wives of Henry VIII, Pope John Paul II, et al.).