I was walking on the banks of the Seine, on my way to meet Jenny Holzer. When I arrived, she was staring at her own artwork, which was being projected onto the facade of the Musée d’Orsay.
“First we came and stalked it,” Holzer said of the museum, which holds some of the world’s greatest Monets, Manets, van Goghs, and Gauguins. “It’s good to walk and look and walk and look. Slow thinking. But after I cased the joint on the seventh time, I go, ‘Oh, I should use the words of the…

