Michael Auping on Jenny Holzer’s Light Line
It has been thirty-five years since Jenny Holzer lit up the Guggenheim Museum with a blazing electronic line of LED messages that curled around the interior of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic spiral. For many of us who saw it at the time, it is remembered as one of the most spectacular and insightful site-specific installations of the 1980s. For those who have only seen it reproduced in books or magazines, the opportunity to have a physical encounter with Holzer’s installation is a gift. T...
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