Paddy Johnson on Jenny Holtzer

Paddy Johnson has an interesting essay on Jenny Holtzer in L Magazine. The essay begins:

"Jenny Holzer is the patron saint of Twitter", at least according to the latest web meme. I assume we're all obliquely referencing Holzer's survey exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Whitney -- bloggers include the show’s link with the quip -- but in doing so, we lump four decades worth of work into the few Truisms that fit into Twitter's 140-character limit. Certainly, the artist fails to benefit from this description.

Read the rest of the essay

Read my earlier (very brief) post about Jenny Holzer's alleged (a commenter said that it isn't really Holzer) twittering.