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Jenny Holzer: Light Line, organized by Lauren Hinkson, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through September 29.
Like the Hollywood suits behind Twisters, Jenny Holzer has decided to reboot a tornadic tour de force from the so-called End of History. Unlike that Glenn Powell vehicle, Holzer’s summer blockbuster is set not amid the flatlands of the Sooner State but in the spiraling rotunda of the Guggenheim. The artist first annexed the museum in 1989, wrapping a 535-foot LED signboard around the interior parapet and feeding it with the hundreds of uncanny non sequiturs from her Truisms (1977–79), Living (1980–82), and Survival (1983–85) series: LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL. PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME. ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION CAN BE A FORM OF FREEDOM. CHILDREN ARE THE CRUELEST OF ALL. CHILDREN ARE THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE. THE FUTURE IS STUPID. SAVOR KINDNESS BECAUSE CRUELTY IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE LATER. SOMEONE WANTS TO CUT A HOLE IN YOU AND FUCK YOU THROUGH IT, BUDDY. A doomscroll avant la lettre, the installation established Holzer as…