Artist: Jenny Holzer ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (10)
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Jenny Holzer - Untitled, Selections from "Truisms" 1983-84 electronic light emi Des Moines Art Center American
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Thomas Faris - Jenny Lind 1851 daguerreotype, quart Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Benjamin Schonzeit, Jenny, 1985
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Fan- "Jenny Lind", early 19th century
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Samuel Walters - Jenny Lind Departing Liverpool aboard the Collins 1850 oil on canvas Peabody Essex Museum English
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Anonymous, Explosion on the Steamboat "Jenny Lind", near San Francisco, California, 1853
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Fislerville Glass Works, Flask aquamarine, inscribed "Jenny Lind", circa 1850
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George Benjamin Luks, American, 1866-1933 Jenny about 1925 Oil on canvas 91.44 x 63.5 cm
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The Olly and Dolly Sisters
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Mäda Primavesi (1903-2000), 1912 Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918)Oil on canvas; 59 x 43 1/2 in.

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (19)
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Kunsthaus Bregenz: Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power
Almost all texts used by Holzer are US government documents – primarily official communications, reports, and letters made available to the public under the landmark legislation, the “Freedom of Information Act.”  Many texts were originally “class...
Dundee Contemporary Arts: Ill Communication: Advances in Travel and Communication
One of the highlights of the show is Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's unlikely use of steam-powered engineering to provide internet access, developed in co-operation with the Scottish Model Engineering Trust. Another work utilises a dysfunctional com...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art
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Centre of Attention: Email Art
Jenny Holzer has shown worldwide in prominent institutions and major spaces such as the Guggenheim museum (New York, Bilbao), the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the ICA in London or the Pompidou Centre on Paris. The main focus of ...
Contemporary Artists Center: Call for Artists: Juried Exhibition by Mike Glier and Jenny Holzer
ENTRY PROCEDURE 1.    Video artists should limit their submissions to a cued five-minute presentation.  All other judging will be done from 35 mm slides only.  Mounts must be thin.  No glass mounted slides or transparencies will be accepted. S...
Museum of Modern Art: Andy Warhol: Screen Tests Presented at MoMA QNS
Each of his subjects was shot straight on with a static camera, using no sound and with minimal light that Warhol positioned in increasingly inventive ways to add shade and character to his subjects. The results are as distinct as the subjects ...
Museum of New Art: Documenta USA: 1,000 Artists from 35 Countries
Documenting implies research, study and analysis, but it may also be raw, emotional, and creative. It is defined as information gathering, but, at the same time, the processing of information into something new. - the Tate Modern There ...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art
The exhibition features twenty-nine works created between 1970 and 2001 that capture the viewer's attention in a variety of ways. From perceptual work like that of Charles Ray or James Turrell that allows us to see ourselves seeing, to ...
Centre of Attention: Call to Artists: Center of Attention Search Engine in San Francisco
The Center of Attention is a non-commercial independent contemporary art gallery based in London, UK. In the past year, it has shown a mix of established artists such as Sylvie Fleury, Jenny Holzer, Ken Friedman (Fluxus West) and Genesis P-Orridge...
Arts Center of the Capital Region: Call to Artists: Seeking Artists for the 2004 Exhibition Schedule
The committee expects to review work for both an open call and for two themed exhibitions. To receive a complete prospectus, please email info@theartscenter.cc or call (518) 273-0552. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2004. For the O...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Assemblance; If it's not love, it's the bomb
The selected works attempt to reconcile difficult histories through the resurrection of personal and cultural memories. This survey crosses experiential divides and examines the artists' continued proximity to the events they depict. Artists inclu...
Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg: ein-leuchten
"Light" in this sense is derived from the Greek concept of "phainomenon" - the appearance - something which is emerging in the process of becoming and metamorphosis. For a brief period of time, "ein-leuchten" articulates the stage of emergence...
University of Essex Art Gallery: More than Meets the Eye
The curators said: 'Words function in our culture as vehicles of communication. Everyone encounters words in some form everyday but we tend to take them for granted. We are not always aware how incredibly persuasive they can be. Words install powe...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: First-year graduate students curate exhibitions: I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real
The three exhibitions, I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real were conceived in collaboration between curatorial teams of first-year graduate students and visiting curator, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of the Bega...
Palau de la Virreina: Banquete:   Metabolism and Communicatión
In this context, banquete has been conceived of as an exploratory and open conversation between art, science, thought and society. A conversation understood as a process in which information and values, experiences, knowledge and meanings flow, mi...
Contemporary Arts Center: Loop: Back to the Beginning
Assembled by Klaus Biesenbach, Loop examines the phenomenon of cyclical time as illustrated by the repeated gesture or event. In each of the works included in this exhibition, time becomes a sculptural component. Time is chopped up, carved, compre...
Vancouver Art Gallery: The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison and Alan Schwartz
At a point in history where lens-based imagery pervades the visual arts, The Big Picture provides a timely overview of contemporary photographic practices. The exhibition includes a total of 75 photo-based works ranging in scale from intimate to ...
Museum of Modern Art: Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now
Founded in Zurich in 1984, the contemporary art journal Parkett has taken an innovative approach to magazine publishing. For each volume, artists are chosen to collaborate in the publishing process: they suggest authors to write on their work, con...

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