Silly me usually gives overtly political artworks the side-eye. It's a bollocks policy, and I'm working on it. Jenny Holzer's relatively recent (2006ish) Redaction Paintings, which call upon declassified Iraq War documents, currently on view at the Whitney (along with several LOVELY site-specific reinstallations of her earlier digital text works) made me weep. They are displayed handily on the website, and are worth a look and read.
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