![]() ![]() Joan Didion: What She Means is organized by Hilton Als in collaboration with Connie Butler, chief curator, and Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, curatorial assistant. ![]() Opening less than a year after her death at age 87, and planned since 2019, Joan Didion: What She Means follows a meandering chronology that grapples with the simultaneously personal and distant evolution of Didion’s voice as a writer and pioneer of the “New Journalism.” The exhibition closely follows her life according to the places she called home and is laid out in chronological chapters-Holy Water: Sacramento, Berkeley (1934–1956) Goodbye to All That: New York (1956–1963) The White Album: California, Hawai‘i (1964–1988) and the final chapeter, Sentimental Journeys: New York, Miami, San Salvador (1988–2021) Organized by critically acclaimed writer and New Yorker contributor Hilton Als, the exhibition features approximately 50 artists ranging from Betye Saar to Vija Celmins, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Maren Hassinger, Silke Otto-Knapp, John Koch, Jorge Pardo, Ed Ruscha, Pat Steir, and many others, with 250 works in media including painting, ephemera, photography, sculpture, video, and footage from a number of the films for which Didion authored screenplays. Didions death last year (almost 18 years to the day after her husbands) makes now a suitable time to revisit the work and since 2020 the world has been dealt catastrophic blows of death and. Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another. ![]()
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