Suzanne Jackson, an experimental artist, opens her first major museum retrospective in an exhibition titled “What is Love”

Experimental artist Suzanne Jackson is debuting her first major museum retrospective in an exhibition titled “What is Love,” according to PBS NewsHour. The show gathers work by Jackson, who has been experimenting with materials for decades, and presents it as a career overview at a point when she is in her 80s.

PBS NewsHour’s Arts and Culture series CANVAS covered the exhibition as senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown traveled to Minneapolis to meet Jackson. The segment centers on Jackson’s long process of trying different approaches and materials, and on how the retrospective format changes how audiences encounter an artist who has spent years working through experimentation rather than a single, fixed method.

The story places Jackson’s retrospective in the context of a career that spans multiple decades. By framing the exhibition as her first major museum presentation of this scale, PBS NewsHour highlights a late-career institutional recognition that can reshape public access to an artist’s body of work, including for visitors who may have encountered Jackson in smaller venues or through less comprehensive displays.

The title “What is Love” also points to how Jackson’s work has been organized for this museum moment. Rather than presenting the work strictly as chronology, PBS NewsHour’s description emphasizes Jackson’s sustained focus on materials and process, suggesting that the retrospective is designed to let those experiments accumulate and be seen together.

In the CANVAS segment, Brown’s on-the-ground reporting focuses on Jackson personally, including the perspective of an artist now looking back from an advanced age. That framing underscores the practical function of a museum retrospective: it compresses years of production into a single public setting, allowing audiences to view how long-running technical choices connect to themes expressed across time.

PBS NewsHour did not describe, in the provided report summary, the specific museum venue, start and end dates, or the full list of works included in “What is Love.” Readers looking for scheduling details and exhibition scope are likely to need the museum’s official listing for the final, current information.