JENNY HOLZER: FOR THE CITY

JENNY HOLZER: FOR THE CITY SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 9, 2005, DUSK UNTIL MIDNIGHT ROCKEFELLER CENTER Sept 29 - Oct 2 (Enter 5th Avenue and 50th Street) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, BOBST LIBRARY Oct 3 - Oct 5 (Washington Square South and LaGuardia Place) THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Oct 6 - Oct 9 (5th Avenue and 42nd Street) Jenny Holzer's light projections of poetry and declassified documents will illuminate landmark New York City buildings. At Rockefeller Center and The New York Public Library, poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Yehuda Amichai, Henri Cole, Mahmoud Darwish, and other celebrated writers will move across the nighttime facades, encompassing the reader with the power of language to educate and console. At Bobst Library, Holzer will project recently declassified United States government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The artist's public presentation of these documents, her first in New York, explores the need to achieve a just and workable balance between secrecy and transparency. Creative Time is awesome again!