For 50 years the artist has found inspiration for storytelling videos and installations on Cape Breton Island. Her nephew Toby Coulson set out to capture the magic.

A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It is a dark room that seems like nothing much — a cave, an aside to the larger exhibition spaces at MIT's List Center — until you immerse yourself in it for any length of time.

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VENICE — For more than five decades, performance has formed the center of Joan Jonas’s illuminating artistic career.

For 50 years the artist has found inspiration for storytelling videos and installations on Cape Breton Island. Her nephew Toby Coulson set out to capture the magic.

At DHC / ART in Montreal is present until September the first retrospective of the multimedia artist Jonas Jonas.

Joan Jonas. Double Lunar Dogs. 1984. Video (color, sound). 24 min. Purchase. 538.1992. © 2025 Joan Jonas. Image courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Media and Performance

Joan Jonas

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