2024年3月31日 星期日

Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

 

Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.

Two women watch a video-sculpture installation that mixes Arctic landscapes, folk tales, music and hanging glass.
Joan Jonas’s “Reanimation,” a video-sculpture installation that mixes arctic landscapes, folk tales, music and hanging glass, at MoMA.Credit...Clark Hodgin for The New York Times


Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the ...
Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in ...
Joan Jonas was born in 1936 in New York. A pioneer of performance and video art, Jonas works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, ...
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Mar 1, 2024 — Joan Jonas's maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology.


2024年3月30日 星期六

with the headline: A Symbol Wilts, But Holds Hope For a Renewal. Kiyan Williams. The White House Has That Sinking Feeling


The White House Has That Sinking Feeling (Thanks to an Artist)

Kiyan Williams, for their Whitney Biennial commission, recreated the column-lined facade from soil. Viewers can watch as it crumbles, sprouts plants and births insects.

Kiyan Williams before a wall of earth, wearing a pale blue shirt and showing red and white nails.
Kiyan Williams at work on the Whitney Biennial commission at their New York studio last month. “Dirt became a metaphor for all of the things that once made me feel ashamed of inhabiting this body. But also that represented the possibility for transformation and regeneration.”Credit...Clifford Prince King for The New York Times

 A version of this article appears in print on March 23, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Symbol Wilts, But Holds Hope For a Renewal



Twelve American flags coated in fried batter are arranged in a grid on a wall.
In “How Do You Properly Fry an American Flag” (2020), Williams nodded to Jasper Johns and to Americans’ love of fatty foods.Credit...Jenny Gorman