Art Museum
The Big Review: Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art, New York ★★★★★
When was the last time you witnessed the birth of a sperm whale? Were personally greeted by the artist at the entrance to her exhibition in a major museum? And became so engrossed in the videos, sculptures, photographs and even the plinths in said show that you turned right around at the end to take it all in again?
Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, the trailblazing octogenarian’s animating career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), is primal exhibition-making. From start to finish it tempers an exhilarating sense of childlike wonderment at the world with the knowledge of its imperilled existence. It gives the most ephemeral and market-defying form of art—performance—a solid body. And it is beautiful—with, as Jonas puts it, an edge.
Never have I seen so high a degree of elegance and visual intelligence in this museum’s top-floor galleries. Gone are most of the dull, white walls that typically neuter much of the art hanging on them. Now, existing walls and domestically scaled room dividers are painted a cushiony black or grey, while rows of deadening lights formerly attached to ceilings too high to provide useful illumination have been sent to storage. Instead, we get a legibility essential to understanding how the many components of Jonas’s layered art cohere in live performance— and in the mind.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is set to make the announcement on Thursday, including a 5% budget increase for all national museums and art galleries.
She is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in urgent need of financial support.
Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK.
The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost £800,000, while the Land of Iron, in Skinningrove, will be given almost £656,000.
Millennium Gallery, in Sheffield, will be awarded £315,000, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, is to receive £442,000 and the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, will receive almost £400,000.
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brand-new private museum to its ranks – PoMo, short for Post Office Modern. Its mission is to make art more accessible, challenge gender inequality in collections, and boost the region’s cultural scene.
Set in an Art Nouveau building that used to serve as the city’s post office, PoMo spans five floors and 4,000 square metres. The space is a product of the vision and personal art collection of Monica Reitan and Ole Robert Reitan, who’ve spent over two decades collecting works from artists like Simone Leigh, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Imhof, and Franz West. Ole Robert, who’s also a co-owner of the Norwegian retail and finance giant Reitan AS, believes art should be for everyone
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