Best Art of 2024 by Holland Cotter, co-chief art critic and a senior writer for the Culture section of The New York Times.
Joan Jonas
How to be long-term luminous was the lesson taught by “Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” at the Museum of Modern Art, a six-decade survey of the still intensely active career of one of our most inventive contemporary artists. Over the years, Jonas, now 88, has broken experimental ground in video, photography, performance, conceptual art and installation, giving everything she touches the warmth of a watchfully lived life. It’s evident from gallery to gallery at MoMA, and in a concurrent show of works on paper, “Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral,” at the Drawing Center in SoHo. (Read The New York Times’s review of “Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning.”)