Meet Joan Jonas, 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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How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom
A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.
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Pat Steir’s Blue Period
The painter discusses her latest work, her previous career in the New York City welfare department and why she tries to make a brushstroke every day.
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What John Singer Sargent Saw
At a retrospective of his portraits in London, where the American expatriate fled after creating a scandal in Paris, clothes offer both armor and self-expression.