Is this anything? The Art Institute’s Nancy Holt exhibit and the art of looking

Right now, at the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, on the Bluhm Family Terrace looking out over Millennium Park and skyscrapers along Michigan Avenue, there is nothing. No, no, wait, make that: There is something that resembles nothing. An exhibition, that looks like nothing much at all. It’s composed of four works from the late Nancy Holt. If you’ve never heard the name (or know a minimalist art installation when you see one), you’d miss it. And that, in itself, nicely explains one of the preoccupations of Nancy Holt. She liked forcing you to think about how […]