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In the late 1960s, at the outset of her career, Joan Jonas would visit a gallery or loft and stare into it “until my vision blurred.” Then, she wrote in 2014, “an idea for a piece would come.” As she understood it, an artist’s job was to fill space, whether that of a room, canvas, screen, […]