Tag Archives: Jenny Holzer

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

Take a break from the solemnity and doom ‘n gloom of the art world by checking out the work of one Eric Doeringer.  The Brooklyn-based artist has a solo show …

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

If you missed Louise Bourgeois (Season 2) at the Guggenheim recently, your next opportunity to see the artist’s first major retrospective in 25 years will be at the Museum of …

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Collaboration

by Wesley Miller | Oct 16, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Collaboration

by Wesley Miller | Oct 16, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Holzer and poet Henri Cole with various Redaction Paintings in her studio in Hoosick Falls, New York, and BIG HANDS YELLOW WHITE (2006) installed at Cheim & Read, …

Jenny Holzer Coming to Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 8, 2008

Jenny Holzer Coming to Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 8, 2008

As Carol Vogel of the New York Times reported, Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer will be illuminating the façade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum starting September 26. The work …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art Start at MoCA, Los Angeles

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 27, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art Start at MoCA, Los Angeles

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 27, 2008

Two weeks ago, from August 11-15, I had the pleasure of spending a week working with a number of outstanding art teachers at the MoCA, Los Angeles summer institute, Contemporary …

Eternal Twilight at the New Museum

by Amy Mackie | Jul 21, 2008

Eternal Twilight at the New Museum

by Amy Mackie | Jul 21, 2008

Several Art21 artists temporarily engage in a moment of symbiosis in the New Museum’s new group exhibition, After Nature, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with the assistance of Jarrett Gregory and …

Sound & Language

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 26, 2008

Sound & Language

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 26, 2008

The human voice is the most specific expression of an individual. With its infinite potential for sound effects and imitation along with its prime role in communication, it is clearly …

Cancelled, Erased & Removed at Sean Kelly Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 23, 2008

Cancelled, Erased & Removed at Sean Kelly Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 23, 2008

On view at Sean Kelly Gallery through August 1, 2008, Cancelled, Erased and Removed explores the conceptual and formal practice of contemporary artists canceling, erasing and removing elements from their work. …

Colab Redux at Brooke Alexander

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 23, 2008

Colab Redux at Brooke Alexander

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 23, 2008

Seminal artist group Colab (short for Collaborative Project) is getting an abbreviated 30-year anniversary look at Brooke Alexander Editions.  Formed in 1978 and active for about 10 years, Colab was …

Jenny Holzer at EVO Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 17, 2008

Jenny Holzer at EVO Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 17, 2008

Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer was the first woman to officially represent the United States in the 1990 Venice Biennale. Her installation Gallery D earned the Leone d’Oro (Golden Lion) prize for best pavilion. She was …

Day 6 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 16, 2008

Day 6 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 16, 2008

As I write, Art21’s founder and executive director, Susan Sollins, is attending the 37th Annual George Foster Peabody Award ceremony to accept the award being given to the Protest episode …

Berliner Salon: Shilpa Gupta at BodhiBerlin and Galerie Volker Diehl

by Emilie Trice | Jun 13, 2008

Berliner Salon: Shilpa Gupta at BodhiBerlin and Galerie Volker Diehl

by Emilie Trice | Jun 13, 2008

The buzz in Berlin right now is around Indian media artist Shilpa Gupta’s first exhibition(s) in Germany, with concurrent shows opening tonight at two local galleries. BodhiBerlin, the recently-opened, first …

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Reading Ben Street’s recent post Pop (and) Art, I started to consider links between music and art. It is easy to support Ben’s idea that the relationship between music and …

Jenny Holzer on Twitter

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 21, 2008

Jenny Holzer on Twitter

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 21, 2008

Current Jenny Holzer (Season 4) Twitter message: INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED To see more of the artist’s aphorisms on the social networking site, click here.

Art:21 Wins Prestigious 2007 Peabody Award!

by Wesley Miller | Apr 4, 2008

Art:21 Wins Prestigious 2007 Peabody Award!

by Wesley Miller | Apr 4, 2008

Season Four of Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century has been honored with a George Foster Peabody Award – the premiere international prize in electronic media – in the 67th Annual …

Martian Museum show at Barbican features real Art21 artists

by David Roesing | Mar 18, 2008

Martian Museum show at Barbican features real Art21 artists

by David Roesing | Mar 18, 2008

Examining contemporary art from the perspective of an extraterrestrial, the group show Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, which opens this week at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, features the …

The Missing Peace at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 11, 2008

The Missing Peace at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 11, 2008

Currently on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a traveling multimedia exhibition that brings together 88 artists whose …

More Women in the City: installation views

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 5, 2008

More Women in the City: installation views

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 5, 2008

Installation views of West of Rome’s Women in the City project, featuring Art21 artists Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, as well as Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler. Thanks to For …

Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 11, 2008

Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 11, 2008

Jenny Holzer. Don‚Äôt Talk Down to Me, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, 1979-82. Offset poster. ¬© 2008 Jenny Holzer, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Jenny Holzer. Destruye, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, …

Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 8, 2008

Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 8, 2008

Women in the City is a viral public art exhibition throughout the streets of Los Angeles that starts today. Timed to coincide with the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art …

Jenny Holzer: DETAINED opens in London

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 31, 2008

Jenny Holzer: DETAINED opens in London

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 31, 2008

Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers gallery in London presents DETAINED, an installation by Jenny Holzer that opens tonight and runs through March 15. Beginning with her 2004 exhibition at the Kunsthaus …

The Sum of Its Parts

by Ana Otero | Jan 3, 2008

The Sum of Its Parts

by Ana Otero | Jan 3, 2008

Next week, New York gallery Cheim & Read will open a group show of works by twelve artists, among them Art21-featured artists Jenny Holzer (Season 4), Roni Horn (Season 3), …

Jenny Holzer’s Projections on live feed

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 11, 2007

Jenny Holzer’s Projections on live feed

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 11, 2007

More from MASS MoCA: Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer has new projections on view and you can view a live feed from the gallery on the museum’s site. These light …

Spotlight on Protest: Jenny Holzer

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 1, 2007

Spotlight on Protest: Jenny Holzer

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 1, 2007

Jenny Holzer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1950. She received a BA from Ohio University in Athens (1972); an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (1977); …

Art:21 Season 4 – PROTEST premieres Sunday, November 4 on PBS!

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 31, 2007

Art:21 Season 4 – PROTEST premieres Sunday, November 4 on PBS!

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 31, 2007

Season 2 Protest premieres Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 10 p.m. Check local listings How does contemporary art engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today? …

Conversation with Jenny Holzer at MoMA this Friday

by Ana Otero | Sep 27, 2007

Conversation with Jenny Holzer at MoMA this Friday

by Ana Otero | Sep 27, 2007

September 28, 2007 at 6:30 pm The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 West 53rd Street New York City Tickets: $10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums …

Jenny Holzer: Projections in Washington D.C.

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 7, 2007

Jenny Holzer: Projections in Washington D.C.

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 7, 2007

Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer presents her second Washington D.C. xenon projection project (the first was in October 2004) starting September 13, when she projects quotes from President John F. …

Jenny Holzer is Twittering

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 17, 2007

Jenny Holzer is Twittering

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 17, 2007

Since May 2007, Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer has been using the microblogging site Twitter as an unusual platform for her text-based work. The Trusim for today? “BEING SURE OF …