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Jenny Holzer Responds to Roe v. Wade Overturn With Blistering NFT

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

The Tweet comparing an ominous screen capture from the Tucker Carlson Show to one of Holzer’s Truisms is being sold as an NFT to benefit crucial organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.

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Artists Find Power in Erasure

by Cassie Packard January 3, 2020January 3, 2020

In Otherwise Obscured, effacement, redaction, and illegibility are positioned as tactics that artists can employ to combat, highlight, or heal sociopolitical invisibility.

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Jenny Holzer Hits Her Mark in a Major, Largely Unnoticed Retrospective

by Heather Kapplow August 29, 2019August 28, 2019

Having 40 years of Holzer’s work in one place means it’s possible to trace lines of activity that are subtler and more poetic than the broad strokes she’s most known for.

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A 1960s Sci-Fi Series Takes on Renewed Relevance

Avatar photo by Andreas Petrossiants May 2, 2019May 2, 2019

A group show featuring the likes of Jenny Holzer and Harun Farocki frames the dystopian world of 1960s British TV show The Prisoner as a harbinger of 21st-century surveillance capitalism.

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Connecting the Dots in the Met Breuer’s Show About Conspiracy Theories

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 15, 2018October 15, 2018

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy spirals through 50 years of paranoia in America from JFK’s assassination to extraterrestrial touchdowns and September 11. But what does that even look like?

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San Francisco’s New Transit Center Features Public Art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn

by Matthew Harrison Tedford August 7, 2018

A new transit center filled with on-site public art opens in San Francisco.

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The Decade that Changed the Art World: Money, Media, and Brands in the 1980s

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan May 10, 2018May 10, 2018

The primary takeaway of Brand New at the Hirshhorn is its demonstration of how high the stakes of representation became during the 1980s, a decade of proliferating imagery and technology.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2017

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 30, 2017January 4, 2021

A year of truth-telling and electric painting.

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Topsy-Turvy Art for a World Turned on Its Head

Avatar photo by Laila Pedro July 21, 2017July 21, 2017

P.P.O.W.’s exhibition is perfectly timed to dig into the rich seam of madness at the heart of our present cultural and political moment.

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Meandering Through MASS MoCA’s Vast Expansion

Avatar photo by Alex Jen June 6, 2017January 11, 2021

On May 28, Building 6, a three-story structure that was renovated by architecture firm Bruner/Cott, opened on the museum’s industrial campus and doubled its gallery footprint.

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Creature Discomfort: Art in the Cycle of History

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli February 25, 2017February 25, 2017

It makes sense, at this most critical moment, to take a serious look at the art of the 1980s, its political fury and layered poetics, as an anchor in the storm.

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Jenny Holzer’s Blowtorch in the Darkness

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli January 28, 2017January 28, 2017

When going too far is barely enough.

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