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.

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

MoMA

https://www.moma.org › Artists

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

Wikipedia

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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

Art21

https://art21.org › artist › joan-jonas

Joan Jonas was born in 1936 in New York. A pioneer of performance and video art, Jonas works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, ...

Videos

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A visit to Joan Jonas' New York loft

YouTube · The Museum of Modern Art

6 minutes, 11 seconds

1 month ago

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Joan Jonas in "Fiction" - Season 7 - "Art in the Twenty-First ...

YouTube · Art21

18 minutes, 46 seconds

May 21, 2023

3 key moments in this video

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Joan Jonas – ‘I'm Curious About Life’ | TateShots

YouTube · Tate

6 minutes, 8 seconds

Mar 17, 2018

5 key moments in this video

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Meet Joan Jonas, One of America's Most Elusive Artists

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com › 2024/03/01 › t-magazine

Mar 1, 2024 — Joan Jonas's maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology.