What’s Happening: It’s not just you—the 87-year-old visual artist is having a major moment in New York and beyond, from a downtown retrospective at the Drawing Center to a mammoth MoMA show and even the shelves of Rachel Comey boutiques.

The Download: Once “Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” opens at MoMA on March 17, there will be no fewer than four concurrent exhibitions of her work happening around the world. In Soho, the Drawing Center’s “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” sheds light how the artist’s drawing practice has informed her boundary-breaking works in sculpture, video, and performance art. She is also a participant in Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Biennale, and recently enjoyed her Australian debut with the opening of “Sun Signals” this past month at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

Her art even played a role in ending Rachel Comey’s hiatus from New York Fashion Week. In September, the fashion designer was one of a few who looked to artistic collaborators to inform their Spring/Summer ‘24 collections. The Rachel Comey x Joan Jonas capsule, which recently launched in her Soho store with a shoppable cocktail hour and exhibition walkthrough on the opening night of her Drawing Center show, struck many as unexpected yet genius. Collaboration is a hallmark of Jonas’ practice, especially in video and performance—two categories in which she is routinely named a “pioneer.” What’s more, particularly in an era of “collabs” no one asked for and even fewer care about, is that she and her creative partners do not aid and abet in the lazy consumption of art. Even in retail, which is rife with such unsolicited and underwhelming partnerships, what Comey and Jonas struck up is thrilling.

Jonas opened her studio and Gladstone Gallery archive to Comey, who seized the opportunity to allude to a range of works as diverse as Jonas’ 1989 short film Volcano Saga, starring Tilda Swinton, to a preponderance of mirrors and reflective fabrics in the clothing. Looking at the edit, and what went into production, one can’t help but wonder what it all means. Jonas’ work asks viewers to interrogate their perceptions and reactions to it. Masks, mirrors, and layered imagery permeate her videos, as do disquieting, almost lunar landscapes and the sea. Her MoMA show opens with a cross-disciplinary sound and poetry performance featuring composer David Michael DiGregorio, scientist David Gruber, poets Susan Howe and Precious Okoyomon, scholar André Lepecki, and choreographer Ralph Lemon.

In Their Own Words: With a career spanning decades, it’s no wonder that Jonas’s collaborators span ages and even species. (Her dogs are a frequent source of inspiration, and often star in her work.) Her MoMA show incorporates text used in a 2012 performance with jazz musician Jason Moran, whose entire family, children included, Jonas has since worked with. “What… strikes me about Joan is that she always works across generations,” Moran said in an interview. “She asks for everybody’s input, and she really wants to know. She’ll tell people, ‘Go stand there. Let me look at it for a second. Now how do you feel standing there?’ I work with some people who don’t deeply care about their collaborators the way she does.”

Surface Says: The only thing better than these retrospectives—well, maybe not better, but pretty great nonetheless—is the proliferation of covetable merch those museum gift shops stock in their wake.

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Since its inception, Summit Series has served as a platform for the world’s leading thinkers and innovators to gather and exchange ideas in locales ranging from Los Angeles to Tulum to ocean liners. The latter, Summit at Sea, is preparing for its final journey in partnership with Virgin Voyages (April 4-7). Headliners include video game designer Henk Rogers, now working on sustainable energy solutions; artist Alexis Rockman, known for paintings depicting environmental crises; Nikolai Haas of fantastical design duo the Haas Brothers; and fashion designer John Varvatos.

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Paris’s Latin Quarter has been injected with culinary buzz in recent years thanks to an influx of new restaurants that have opened shop. The momentum continues with the arrival of Brasserie des Prés, a bistro situated in the courtyard of Commerce Saint-Andrés, helmed by the chef trio Théophile Hauser-Peretti, Thibaut Darteyre, and Baptiste Zwygart. Conceived by B3 Designers and Dorénavant Studio, the restaurant’s visual language embodies the district’s artistic legacy—Hemingway and Sartre were once regulars at many of the historical cafes—through its flamboyant interiors marked by tasseled chairs and disco balls. The menu is an ode to the classics, from oeufs mimosa (deviled eggs) to jambon persillé (ham set in savory gelatin flecked with parsley) to foie gras terrine whose recipe comes from Théophile’s mother.

When Jasmin Larian Hekmat was plotting her ready-to-wear label Cult Gaia’s latest boutique in the Miami Design District, she sought to mix Edenic references with a healing dose of Vitamin D. Apropos of the Sunshine State, portals to the outdoors are sprinkled throughout the 1,500-square-foot store thanks to the deft touch of interiors firm Sugarhouse. Those nods begin outside, with a fantastical hand-painted ceramic mural of a silhouetted tree and flower-crowned nymphs by Michael Chandler adorning the A-frame facade in wondrous shades of blue. It evokes both Henri Rousseau and the lapis lazuli hues that adorn Persian mosques—a striking departure from the area’s typically flat architecture.

When visitors walk through the arched central door, they’re greeted with the motto “may all the doors of the world always be open to you.” Such mindfulness befits a meditative tripartite interior blanketed in creamy hues of limestone and travertine. Clothes hang neatly from unlacquered brass rods reminiscent of Cult Gaia’s jewelry, neighboring biomorphic wall mirrors by New Vernacular Studio. The main dressing area, clad in 100 chiseled sandstone blocks, references rock-cut cave temples. Two ceiling domes contain oculi that let the light in. Statement pieces sit under each—in one room, a towering Banyan tree nests within a serpentine sofa by Brandi Howe; another fixates on a 12-foot-tall concrete sculpture of a female nude. Giacometti may come to mind at first glance, but was actually made by Larian Hekmat’s mother, Angela.

New & Notable is a cultural catchall that highlights interesting new products and projects from our brilliantly creative members of The List. With new releases, events, and goings-on, the below moments indicate the power they have to move the needle in realms including architecture, design, fashion, and art.

Dedon: If Richard Frinier’s Orbit outdoor loveseat inspires galactic imagery, it’s not by coincidence: the fully rotatable piece was inspired by the designer’s musings on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. On the 16th anniversary of Orbit’s debut, Dedon has relaunched it with a new cloth canopy in Mystique Stereo Bluo. Depending on the angle of light and the viewer, its color can appear as bright as a Valencia orange or as deep as the night sky.

Dinosaur Designs: We’re always charmed by the new launches on offer from the homeware and jewelry studio, and their latest, the Chalk collection, is no exception. It spans tableware like cheese knives, plates, serving spoons, and bowls, as well as bracelets and rings in delicately evocative hues of Chalk Swirl, Sandy Pearl, and White Marble.

Noho: Noho has exclusively crafted subtly ergonomic seating until now, but that changes with the debut of its first-ever dining table. Like all of the studio’s launches, its Dine table is designed to last: the durable aluminum frame supports a wooden tabletop that imparts elegance but won’t overwhelm a sleek interior or steal the scene at a dinner party.

When: Until May 4

Where: Ford Foundation Gallery, New York

What: The Ford Foundation Gallery has a proven track record of staging topical and incisive group shows, and its latest is no exception. The first of three shows to be exhibited over the course of this year, “Cantando Bajito: Testimonies” features artists like Kent Monkman, Abigail Reyes, and Sheba Chhachhi, who use their chosen mediums of video, etchings, photography, oil painting, and more to explore and confront “the daily violence that feminized bodies experience” as well as the ways individuals and society at large confront it through the lens of reproductive rights, gender-affirming healthcare, and violations against women that are systemically ignored at the highest levels of government.

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