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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...

Shaking the Tree Theatre's latest production, The Boy and the Bird, adapts a short story by Alissa Nutting, which was based on the Brothers Grimm's "The Juniper Tree" into a tight 60-minute spring season play filled with tension, suspense, and stray rays of humor.  Fairy tale adaptions are only as good as the people adapting them, but Shaking the Tree has boiled the bones of "The Boy and the Bird" into a visual feast. I disliked shadowplay before I saw Shaking the Tree do it, and I think it's because I've never seen it done well before.

Joan Jonas's MoMA retrospective reveals the enduring influence of Japanese culture on her work.

A new exhibit from artist Jennifer Morgan has taken over the Mount Pearl Annex and lets people step into a macabre fairy tale.

In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls levitate and ducks swim through drawing rooms, while her own colourful life included a friendship with spy Kim Philby, and her talents were championed by Graham Greene. Might a new biography finally secure her place in the literary canon, asks Jessie Thompson