“Looking Up: The Guggenheim”

The Gugg in NYC from May 2024
It seems to me the couple at left should swap shirts!
Jenny Holzer’s “Light Line” exhibition presents written word pieces in various formats to challenge conventional power structures. Redacted government documents and Trump tweets are just two of the devices employed in showing how language can both bind us and divide us. It may tell the truth and also obscure it. Talk is cheap, but its consequences — from lies and fabrications that led to the Iraq War or to a Trump presidency — can be quite expensive.
Some words are like music… GUILTY!!

Published by Stephen Futterer

Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

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