What can Art do? I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for some artwork or an exhibition to help me make sense of our time. Art can, of course, show us things that we recognize and confuse us as well. Seeing things that we know what they are: photographs of bricks, silkscreen of bricks, images of paper clips, for sale signs, tires, kettle bells, police barricades, all with their reduced pallet in the Cady Noland show at Gagosian Gallery in New York is exactly that, not because it makes sense, but particularly because it mostly doesn’t—at least to me. Our times don’t make sense. The decisions that are being made don’t make sense. Things we previously thought we knew to be true are no longer so. Her exhibition reminds us that even though we have no idea what in the world is going on, time will continue, and we will continue to live for as long as we will, and we can operate within the systems that we create for ourselves within the language that we choose to adopt. I traveled to Frankfurt in April of 2019 only to see Cady Noland’s exhibition at MMK. It helped me then, as her exhibition and her decision to do it now does today.