W.G. Sebald's 'After Nature' inspires exhibition Aug 31, 2008
There are weak works in the show: I was bewildered, for instance, then bored, by the Puerto Rico-based duo Allora and Calzadilla's piece combining grafted tropical plants with a digital text-based artwork by Jenny Holzer. And I felt that Maurizio Cattelan's show-offy sculpture of a taxidermied horse dangling from a wall, its head seeming to disappear into it, spoiled the show's mood of wincing hyper-sensitivity. (Boston Globe)
Absolut Launches First Phase of Anticipated Helmut Lang Collaboration Aug 30, 2008
"Sceance de Travail 1993-1999", a retrospective installation originally conceived for "Louise Bourgeois. Jenny Holzer. Helmut Lang" (Kunsthalle Wien,1998). Drawing on references as diverse as the folkloric rites of maypole ceremonies and the exploration of surrogate skin, Lang has created a series of installations, objects and possibilities that integrate an intimate knowledge of the human form with the personal mythologies and abstract arrangements of the world at large. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
CityCenter Unveils First Retailers and Dining Establishments for The Crystals Retail and Entertainment District Jul 19, 2008
CityCenter also will feature a $40 million public fine art program with works by acclaimed artists including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, among others. CityCenter is a design collaboration between MGM MIRAGE and eight internationally acclaimed architectural firms including Pelli Clarke Pelli, Kohn Pederson Fox, Helmut Jahn, RV Architecture LLC led by Rafael Vinoly, Foster + Partners(1), Studio Daniel Libeskind(1), Rockwell Group and Gensler. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A chilling lesson in art Jul 13, 2008
This is far more participatory compared to the previous 15 BMW Art Cars, when artists such as David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol basically used the cars body as a canvas for their paintings. For instance, Warhol said he used sweeping strokes to portray speed pictorially. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
* Oasis of art planned in the land of glitter Mar 15, 2008
In a boisterous town legendary for shining the spotlight on Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Celine Dion, it's a safe bet that few could have envisioned these names as Strip attractions: Maya Lin, Henry Moore, Frank Stella, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins. And more. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
On the Vegas Strip, wagering on the public arts Mar 15, 2008
The artist Maya Lin, with a study of her Colorado River project for CityCenter, the MGM Mirage complex being built in Las Vegas. (Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cate McQuaid's picks Dec 30, 2007
"Projections" by Jenny Holzer at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Asian shows at the MFA: "Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection," "Drama and Desire of the Floating World," "The Weng Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy". (Boston Globe)
Critics' picks - visual arts Dec 24, 2007
With "Projections," Jenny Holzer offers a brilliant, hypnotic installation at Mass MoCA. Her first interior light projections in the United States bring waves of text that sweep through giant Building 5, enveloping viewers who can recline in large beanbag chairs on the floor. It's a magical experience, and it's sobering to pass into the nearby small galleries where Holzer has mounted recent silkscreen paintings depicting formerly classified US government documents related to the war in Iraq. (Boston Globe)
Pincus on art Dec 24, 2007
Inauguration of the Jacobs and Copley Buildings, with exhibitions of Ernesto Neto, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Richard Wright and Modern American Masters, permanent commissioned works by Jenny Holzer and Richard Serra, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown; opening date: Jan. 21, 2007. 3. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama Dec 6, 2007
Curated by Randy Rosenberg, formerly the curator for the art collections of The World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the roster of artists includes: Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Jane Alexander, El Anatsui, Laurie Anderson, Ken Aptekar, Richard Avedon, Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Chase Bailey, Tayseer Baraket, Sanford Biggers, Phil Borges, Dove Bradshaw, Guy Buffet, Dario Campanile, Andy Cao, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Chuck Close, Constantino Ciervo, Christo... (AbsoluteArts.com)
At Mass MoCA, Jenny Holzer lights up a room Nov 23, 2007
NORTH ADAMS - "I've learned how to disappear space," says artist Jenny Holzer. "If you turn the lights off, it doesn't seem so big.". (Boston Globe)
Hoosick creates art for chair-ity Oct 27, 2007
There's the chair titled "For Grandma Moses" by Jenny Holzer, whose artwork has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Venice Biennale and The Reichstag. Grandma Moses' great-grandson, Tom Moses, has a rocker titled, "The Moses Rocker.". (Albany Times Union)
Court, controversy for dismantled Bucher exhibition at Mass Moca Oct 25, 2007
The yearlong battle had worn down his staff, and a Jenny Holzer exhibit was due to open in the space soon ... "ReleasedThe court ruling came down on a Friday in September. That weekend, Thompson had a beer with Criddle to talk over the situation. He consulted with Yale's Reynolds. It had been a bad year for Mass MoCA. Attendance had dipped from about 120,000 in 2006 to 100,000 visitors. Morale was low. Why not get rid of Buchel's stuff and get ready for the Jenny Holzer exhibit opening in... (North County Times)
Christoph Bchel and Mass MoCA: The dismantling of an exhibition Oct 21, 2007
The yearlong battle had worn down his staff, and a Jenny Holzer exhibit was due to open in the space soon ... "ReleasedThe court ruling came down on a Friday in September. That weekend, Thompson had a beer with Criddle to talk over the situation. He consulted with Yale's Reynolds. It had been a bad year for Mass MoCA. Attendance had dipped from about 120,000 in 2006 to 100,000 visitors. Morale was low. Why not get rid of B chel's stuff and get ready for the Jenny Holzer exhibit opening in... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Russian collectors snap up art at London Frieze Fair Oct 11, 2007
Now their collection includes a blue plank by John McCracken, Piotr Uklanski's "Brooklyn Bridge" diptych, and works by Jenny Holzer and Jeff Koons. In the past six months, they spent around $1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
London Frieze Art Fair Lures Buyers, Hedge Funds as Bonus Concern Grows Oct 10, 2007
Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, currently in Cologne and London, has a neon work at 500,000 euros by U.S. artist Jenny Holzer. Red Yellow Looming'' has 13 double-sided electronic signs with red and amber diodes. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Mass MoCA reverses course, will not show unfinished exhibit Sep 26, 2007
The museum plans to open a Jenny Holzer exhibition in the space Nov. 17. Holzer is well known for text-based works that make use of electronic technology. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Judge rules Mass MoCA can show controversial unfinished installation Sep 22, 2007
Thompson said Mass MoCA was looking forward to moving on with its fall season, when an exhibit by artist Jenny Holzer will fill Building 5. Thompson said he might be able to show Buchel's work for a few weeks or months before Holzer's is set up. (Boston Globe)
* Art in the present tense: Politics, loss and beauty Jun 14, 2007
New silk-screen paintings by the American artist Jenny Holzer, best known for her neon signs of social commentary, are based on classified military documents and the Guantanamo Bay detainment center, including a medical examiners autopsy report for an Iraqi national. He had suffered fractures of the ribs and a contusion of the left lung suggesting significant blunt force injuries of the thorax, the report says. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
There are rooms devoted to Biennale familiars Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Sol LeWitt, as well as newer introductions for an international audience such as Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Raymond Pettibon. Mr. Nozkowski's thoughtful, quirkily compact little abstractions loosely intimating specific sources and improvising playfully upon art historical precedents epitomize Mr. Storr's thesis of art at the nexus of the sensual and the cerebral. (New York Sun)
Apocalypse at the Venice Biennale Jun 11, 2007
A room of new silkscreen paintings by the American artist Jenny Holzer, best known for her neon signs of social commentary, were based on classified military documents from the Iraq war and the Guantnamo Bay prison, including a medical examiner's autopsy report for an Iraq national. He had suffered "fractures of the ribs and a contusion of the left lung" suggesting "significant blunt force injuries of the thorax," the report noted. (International Herald Tribune)
Colby is given art worth $100m May 19, 2007
The 500 works in the collection include paintings, sculptures, and prints by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Winslow Homer, Sol LeWitt, Jenny Holzer, and Alex Katz. The collection also includes 201 etchings and lithographs by James McNeill Whistler. (Boston Globe)
In two exhibits, politics and war are held up for scrutiny May 16, 2007
Two exhibitions responding to the war -- one directly and the other indirectly -- are now on view in Boston: a powerful solo show of recent paintings by the celebrated political artist Jenny Holzer at Barbara Krakow Gallery, and "War and Discontent," a well-meaning but muddled exhibition of historical and contemporary works at the Museum of Fine Arts ... Jenny Holzer: Archive At: Barbara Krakow Gallery, 10 Newbury St., through June 6 ... Jenny Holzer : Archive. (Boston Globe)
Decodings: It's only words Jan 29, 2007
except when it isn't Jenny Holzer uses language as art in 'For MCASD ... CHARLIE NEUMAN / Union-Tribune Thinking vertically: Jenny Holzer's LED (light-emitting diode) commission is a little more than 61 feet tall and about 20 inches wide, though the letters themselves are slightly narrower ... Jenny Holzer's new permanent commission on the facade of the new Copley Building of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, For MCASD, relies on words. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
MCASD; A landmark arrival Jan 15, 2007
For MCASD, Jenny Holzer's light-emitting diode piece for the museum one of three permanent works created for the new location will be turned on Friday night ... The most conspicuous and visually prominent commission is by American Jenny Holzer, who has exhibited her text pieces across the globe and has a piece in UCSD's Stuart Collection. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Lyric Opera S.D. changes schedule Jan 15, 2007
It includes works by several major contemporary artists, including Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Jenny Holzer and Alexis Smith. People have found it (the brochure) to be incredibly useful, says Stuart Collection director Mary Beebe. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
He's spent 50 years giving to the arts Jan 14, 2007
The galleria is a central part of the MFA's I.M. Pei West Wing and contains works by Jonathan Borofsky, Jenny Holzer, David Smith, and other contemporary artists. "Julian 'Julie' Cohen is a great benefactor of the MFA, meaning he has given in his lifetime over $2.5 million," says Anne Cowie, senior development officer/associate campaign director of the MFA. Cohen made an additional gift to the MFA in 2006, but the museum would not disclose that figure. (Boston Globe -- Business)
