http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/arts/design/26holz.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
I hope this link will work to get folks over to the review of Jenny Holzer's show at MASS MOCA - particular where the projections make use of Iraq related war plans - Rumsfeld and company's langauge of conquest, objectives, etc. Hats off to Holzer for taking on the subject - elevating the invisible 'footnotes' (as this Administration wanted them no doubt to remain) into a VizPo spectacle of national embarassment (which this Administration will never acknowledge). Holzer seems to have elevated so-called and dismissed "hind sight" into the glaring receptacle of the present.
Hats off to Holzer. And thanks to Ron Silliman for bringing it to the fore - I missed it somehow. & wish I could go there!
For more tidy holiday fare, I recommend Starting Out One Evening as a terrific literaly 'literary' movie. Description will make it not interesting. Touching and funny. And for those of us who grew up in the era - hegemony? - of "The Jewish Novel" - it's a kind of discrete elegy for the passing of a time and space in New York letters. (Yes, very upper west side without the W Allen anxious antics).
I hear the Schnabel film is wonderful, as well. Next on the list.
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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