I have been a Jenny Holzer fan for a long time.
On Dec 29, 2007 12:03 AM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/arts/design/26holz.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
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> 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!
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> 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).
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> I hear the Schnabel film is wonderful, as well. Next on the list.
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> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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