BRITTICISMS

From 10 Inflammatory Essays by Jenny Holzer

1. I went to the member’s preview of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’s latest exhibition, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. It was great to see some of Holzer’s work in person, rather than just seeing it on my small laptop screen.
2. It’s interesting to consider which essays are readily accessible online. The above two were my some of my favorites, and they were a quick Google search away. The things that stuck out to me clearly stuck out to other people. Can certain ideas and questions and challenges be more universal than others? Or is it merely a matter of one’s desire to gravitate toward ideas that are more familiar and less threatening?