Jenny Holzer to Light Up Facade of Guggenheim Museum

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Published: September 5, 2008

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NEW YORK—The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has commissioned Jenny Holzer to create a site-specific work for the facade of its iconic building to mark the completion of a three-year restoration, reports the New York Times.

Mixing political statements about terrorism and the Iraq war with poems by Wislawa Szymborska, the epigrams will cascade down the Guggenheim in a flurry of white lettering. This will be the first time that the museum has commissioned a work that uses the facade of the the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building.

"The shapely building always provides inspiration," Holzer said.

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After an inauguration on September 22 at 6:45 p.m. in which Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will switch it on, the installation will be on view from sunset until 11 p.m. every Friday evening through December, with a special showing on New Year's Eve.

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