Joan Didion: What She Means.

An exhibition as portrait, an examination of the life of the great American artist, Joan Didion.

Organized by critically acclaimed writer and New Yorker contributor Hilton Als, the exhibition features approximately fifty artists, including Betye Saar, Vija Celmins, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Maren Hassinger, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ana Mendieta, and Pat Steir, among many others. The more than 200 objects and artworks include family heirlooms, paintings, ephemera, photographs, sculptures, videos, and footage from a number of the films for which Didion authored screenplays.

Joan Didion: What She Means follows a chronology that grapples with the simultaneously personal and distant evolution of Didion’s voice as a writer and pioneer of New Journalism,  with its emphasis on subjectivity, and critique of power. 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 chapter, Sentimental Journeys: New York, Miami, San Salvador (1988–2021).

Mon 11am - 6pm
Tue - Wed CLOSED
Thu 11am - 9pm
Fri - Sun 11am - 6pm

1103 Biscayne Blvd

Miami, FL