Hanging Out With Jenny Holzer

Perhaps you are wondering what it is like to be artist Jenny Holzer. The Times will tell you. Sign Up

Perhaps you are wondering what it is like to be artist Jenny Holzer. The Times will tell you.

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Holzer’s morning:

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

Holzer’s work habits:

I work almost all the time; if I don’t work, I become anxious. About the only thing I do when I am home that isn’t work is a barn check, to make sure the horses aren’t stuck in corners. The horses are relaxed and happy to see me. I come bearing hay.

Holzer’s fitness regimen:

Righting myself when I trip.

Holzer’s evening:

Eat a frozen organic pizza. Maybe watch a “Law & Order” rerun. “Law & Order” reruns are important to country folk. It keeps the city close.

Holzer’s “favorite household chore”:

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

I guess it should come as no surprise that Holzer, famous for projecting pithy phrases onto buildings, is a little better at this exercise than Kirsten Gillibrand.

Hanging Out With Jenny Holzer