Jenny Holzer commission for the Guggenheim

Everyone has been talking about the Jenny Holzer site-specific light projection commissioned for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which was unveiled this past Monday evening at the completion of a 3-year museum renovation. I have always admired her work, which is known for its witty and provocative manipulation and compilation of the written word. This particular piece will include her own writing as well as excerpts from other texts, including “Tortures,” from the View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska. It will be projected every Friday evening through the rest of the calendar year.

Jenny Holzer, For the Guggenheim, 2008