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Neon was an early medium for Bruce Nauman. There was an old beer sign on the window of his San Francisco studio (a converted grocery store) and that gave him an idea: make his own signs in neon.

A version of one of those early pieces, along with two decades of work, is in “Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works With Light,” a nationally touring exhibition that was assembled by the Milwaukee Art Museum and curated by Joseph D. Ketner II. It has been to six additional venues in the United States, Canada and Australia and is now on view in the La Jolla quarters of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, its last stop.

Made in 1967, that early neon, “The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths” forms a spiral and can be mounted on a window or a wall. Its text is the same as its title.

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