Jenny Holzer

Sage and Hilarious Advice From Jenny Holzer, Mom

Posted 01.05.2012

Jenny Holzer, an artist made famous for her use of stern LED projections, once said, "A man can't know what it's like to be a mother." Well, perhaps h...

Can 'Work Of Art' Deliver?

Glen Helfand | Posted 12.16.2011

Glen Helfand

We all yearn for great figures in art, politics and culture, yet we are resigned to their impossibility. The hugely influential Steve Jobs was honor...

BLOG WATCH> Miami Art Fairs: Fear and Sacrilege in South Beach On Daily Serving

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

There is nothing that the art world loves more than four days of not stop money spending and networking. The Miami art fairs are quick to come and go,...

Emi Fontana: Why an Italian Is Producing Great Public art in L.A.

Max Padilla | Posted 05.25.2011

Max Padilla

Emi Fontana's non-profit West of Rome has been producing stellar public art displays of the works of Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Olafur Eliasson.

Under Construction: Photography and the Word

Carrie Yury | Posted 05.25.2011

Carrie Yury

Artists such as Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Ed Ruscha have famously used language to deconstruct the icons and apparatuses of modern society. Ho...

STREET ART: Wooster Collective History Of Outlaw Art, Book Review

Cool Hunting | Posted 05.25.2011

Books on street art are as common as taggers who think they're going to be the next Banksy. So when we heard the elusive artist himself wrote the intr...

ART AND DANCE: Jenny Holzer And Miguel Guitierrez In An Artistic Marriage

nytimes.com | CLAUDIA LA ROCCO | Posted 05.25.2011

AFTER years of invitations the visual artist Jenny Holzer finally agreed to participate in Summer Stages Dance, thrilling Richard Colton, who founded ...

National Poetry Month: Breeding Hyperlinks Out of the Dead Land

Travis Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Travis Nichols

It's National Poetry Month, so media outlets all across the country are shining a spotlight on the art form they normally ignore, mangle, or treat with derision. Hooray!

Richard Serra and Jessye Norman Join Forces to Help the Homeless at Art Auction

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Jane Levere

To be held at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea on January 29, the event will feature cocktails and a silent and live auction.

Live from Sundance Film Festival: Day 1

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Marshall Fine

They want to rebrand - or perhaps reboot - the Sundance Film Festival this year. Which is why, when you sit in one of the theaters waiting for a film ...

Sleep Loss in America: The Decade That Didn't Sleep and Why It's Complicated

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Qanta Ahmed, MD

We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.

Torture as Portrayed through Jenny Holzer's "Protect/Protect"

Joscelyn Jurich | Posted 05.25.2011

Joscelyn Jurich

"Protect/Protect" reminds us with ferocious intensity that we desperately need to look backwards in order to assess the present and more carefully determine the future.

At the Crossroads of Politics and Art, Jenny Holzer is Waiting

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

Victoria Lautman

The exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is timely indeed. Not to mention alarming. Even sickening.

Culture Zohn: Sexy Ballet, Provocative Projections and the Mayor: the Guggenheim Gets (Re)-Dressed

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia Zohn

2008-09-23-worksandprocessrunway2.jpg Gone are the days of the staid museum. This is a three ring affair and worth checking out as soon as possible.