For the City
Project Added: December 7, 2020
![A black and white photo shows an older building with arches and columns with words projected on the front of it.](/sites/default/files/styles/project_database_node_header/public/projects/For%20the%20City%20-%20Olivia%20Cintron.gif?itok=FbVTvgHa)
Jenny Holzer's light projections
Jenny Holzer
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New York, New YorkRegion:
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Writing and literaturePopulation Density:
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https://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2005/holzer/index1.htmlOVERVIEW
Jenny Holzer's For the City was a series of moving projections, installed at the Rockefeller Center and The New York Public Library, where poems by Wis_awa Szymborska, Yehuda Amichai, Henri Cole, Mahmoud Darwish, and other writers moved across the nighttime facades of landmark buildings