Jenny Holzer has a new artist room at Tate Modern which we took a visit to. Other than showing a great span of her very exciting work, it also shows what happens to certain artists when they are given more money; older artists seem to just do what they’ve always done but in a more expensive way. An example being that she used to print her text works on cheap things just as t-shirts and cups, now it’s marble benches and massive LED light strips. This is in no way a criticism but it does make for a weird and very traceable lineage. The legacy does make for a good show which is definitely something which is valued in the artworld.
Went to an opening at Anka Kutleys by Olga Fedorova. We were mostly excited by the massive USB drives made of granite, almost like gravestones to the analogue era.
