Jenny Holzer is the first woman artist to fill the U.S. pavilion at the Venice Biennale. For America to represent itself with a woman at the world's oldest festival of new art was a long-overdue gesture. But alas, the best thing to be said about it is that Holzer is a woman. Considered as art, the installation by this 39-year-old conceptual artist seems lavish but mediocre, especially when divorced from the feverish context of the Biennale's opening.
For a few days in late May, the whole international art set converges on Venice, jams Harry's Bar and the Corte Sconta, and migrates...
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