Jonas

  • Arts

    Joan Jonas on Her Island of Wonder

    The view never ends from the weathered porch of Joan Jonas’s summer home on a hill in Cape Breton Island, on the tip of Nova Scotia. Just beyond a thicket of treetops, the Gulf of St. Lawrence sways in a gradient of blues, a cobalt horizon line ...

  • Arts

    Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

    I’m not a humanist, I’m a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man as the crown of creation, with all other animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward — has never ...

  • Magazine

    Meet One of America’s Most Elusive Artists

    Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.

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