Jenny Holzer’s Facile Guggenheim Museum Show Fails to Meet Our Moment

“OUR TIMES ARE INTOLERABLE,” reads scrolling text that appears on a 900-foot-long LED screen mounted to the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda right now. And who’s to disagree these days? Those words were written by artist Jenny Holzer roughly half a century ago, and she’s now recycled them anew, as if to suggest that not much has changed. For Holzer, it’s the same shit, different millennium.When Holzer exhibited similar dictums via a screen mounted to the Guggenheim