JENNY HOLZER

She uses a tone of anonymous authority that forces readers to stop, question the declarations and subsequently decide whether they concur or disagree. "I started the work as a parody, like the Great Ideas of the Western World in a nutshell," to make "big issues in culture intelligible as public art." She started with street posters in New York City from Manhattan to the slums and crackhouses on 44th and has since won the art world's Triple Crown: The Dala Art Foundation, Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the American Pavilion of Venice Biennale. She has countered such acclaim but still enjoys street posters as her favori...