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☆ Jenny Holzer Shines New Light in Dark Places
  + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Nancy Princenthal | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Thirty-five years after she first set the Guggenheim’s rotunda ablaze with an electronic text racing along its spiral ramp, Jenny Holzer is reprising the installation, and turning up the heat. “Light Line,” a career-spanning exhibition, presents a newly updated LED sign which, together with other recent work, illuminates changes in political language and its modes of delivery unimaginable in 1989. The targets of the texts Holzer wrote between the late 1970s and 2001 — variously excerpted and re-sequenced for the new sign — range broadly. In the newer, non-electronic work in this exhibition, she keeps a viselike grip on threats to democracy. A Midwesterner by birth, born at midcentury, she is self-deprecating, plain-spoken and armed with a wicked gift for irony.
Persons: Jenny Holzer, Holzer, ” Holzer, “ Locations: ”, Brooklyn, United States, midcentury
☆ Cindy Sherman: Woman of an Uncertain Age
  + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Nancy Princenthal | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Femininity was understood to be a cultural construct, a masquerade, and Sherman’s photographs were considered exemplary of this turn. In the following decades, quite independently of the politics swirling around her, Sherman continued to deploy her face and body in fanciful guises that ran the gamut from an Italian Renaissance Madonna to an All-American clown. For all its jangly discontinuities, the current work (all untitled) feels newly grounded. It emerged, Sherman told me, from a creative slump. It clicked.
Persons: Sherman, “ Locations: Italian, New York, Zurich
☆ Ruth Asawa: Solid Form Meets Thin Air
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Nancy Princenthal | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Anti-Japanese prejudice survived the war, and prevented Asawa from securing the work experience she needed to complete a degree in teaching. Both mixed design, geometry and art in their teaching, and both became Asawa’s lifelong friends. Exhorting his students to explore ordinary materials such as paper, wire and string, Albers paired an aesthetic inclination with habits of thrift already deeply instilled in Asawa. Formal economy and practical frugality, shared hallmarks of many Depression-era Modernists, are also standard practice in vernacular craft traditions around the world. Asawa, shaped by both, made her second trip to Mexico during a summer break from Black Mountain, learning to weave wire baskets from local artisans.
Persons: Josef Albers —, Buckminster Fuller, “, ”, Albers Organizations: Black Mountain College Locations: Mexico
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