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The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective Käthe Kollwitz, the artist’s long overdue New York City major debut, is both a technical and thematic wonder suffused with the artist’s fury and the overwhelming pathos of her work. The exhibition examines both the piecemeal ways in which Kollwitz produced her works and the recurrent nature of her motifs, including, of course, hands.
Jonas is the subject of two revelatory exhibitions now on view in New York—along with the MoMA retrospective (through July 6), the Drawing Center is presenting a survey of works on paper, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,” through June 2. When I try to get an overview of Jonas’s work, I often consider the title of a work of hers from 1973: Glass Puzzle. I saw a version of this piece in her 2018 retrospective at London’s Tate Modern—Glass Puzzle II, which is dated 1974/2000 and incorporates the original black-and-white video projected onto a paper screen, color footage from 1974 displaye...
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For Joan Jonas, April marks the culmination, through two major exhibitions, of a career whose scope is as vast as America itself, providing an opportunity for all of us to experience the length and breadth of her oeuvre.
Joan Jonas's MoMA retrospective reveals the enduring influence of Japanese culture on her work.