Tag: Jenny Holzer

  • Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You

    As poetic as it is urgent, Barbara Kruger’s text-based work packs a weighty punch. Her methods of direct address implicate the viewer, leaving no space for complacency

  • Mark Titchner – interview: ‘Language is how we relate to the world, there’s no separation’

    His text-based work Please Believe These Days Will Pass has formed a key part of the UK’s early lockdown landscape. Here, he talks about his process and the power of language – its ambiguity as well as our collective understanding…

  • Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable

    This overarching retrospective covers Holzer’s 40 years as an artist activist, from her printed slogans on T-shirts and condom-wrappers to LED and kinetic sculptures

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Anni Albers: Touching Vision

    Remaining committed to the Bauhaus ideals of uniting art and design as one field of form-production, Anni Albers’s pictorial weavings and later graphic prints promoted the egalitarian dissemination of artistic forms and prototypes

  • Jenny Holzer: Softer

    In her current exhibition at Blenheim Palace, Holzer responds to the building’s military history with more than 50 works examining the brutality of war

  • From the Vapor of Gasoline

    This exhibition is a lively collection of works from a group of impressive and challenging artists, which together tell a powerful story of the social ills affecting the US from the Nixon years to the turn of the century

  • Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015

    To measure the imprint that a century of abstract art has left on society, culture and politics, Adventures of the Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery collates artwork from every corner of the globe

  • Jenny Holzer: Sophisticated Devices

    “When you’ve been someplace for awhile you acquire the ability to be practically invisible. This lets you operate with a minimum of interference” (from the Living Series, 1980-1982). Yet, despite having been on the art scene since the 1970s, Jenny…

  • The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power 1973

    Prestel, published in association with the Neuberger Museum of Art New York, 2011 Edited by Nancy Princenthal With essays by Tom McDonough, Griselda Pollock, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Kristine Stiles