You can say that the new works by Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks are quintessential “late work”—rarefied, haunted, etc. But then again, Jasper Johns is an artist who has been making “late work” since ...
The Powers Art Center in Carbondale will debut a new exhibition, “Jasper Johns: a whole can be only a part,” on Dec. 2. The ...
At 91 years old, Jasper Johns is one of the most important living artists today, with auction sales worth tens of millions of dollars and a seven-decade career credited with changing the course of ...
Imagine this curatorial nightmare. You persuade a collector to loan a modern masterpiece, purchased in 1988 for a record-breaking $17 million, for a blockbuster exhibition. Then, just weeks before ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The first major U.S. exhibit of artist Jasper Johns in 20 years opens at The Broad Saturday. It's called, "Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth." The artist made icons of ...
It’s been striking to me to see how there are two camps of people in the lead up to the big, twin shows of Jasper Johns at the Whitney and the Philadelphia museums. There were people who were really ...
A single venue was not enough. Jasper Johns needed two major American museums to host his 90th year birthday retrospective (91st to be precise, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic). “Jasper Johns: ...
Few artists earn the right to be called "forces" in American art. Jasper Johns is one of them. "There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists," he famously said ...
Jasper Johns is an iconic iconoclast. Working at cross-purposes has certainly been productive: At 87, he is among our greatest living artists. In graphics, sculptures and especially paintings made ...
Who doesn't love a subway series? Two venues, twice the excitement. And what goes for baseball fans, shuttling between stadiums, also goes for art lovers. "Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror" is an experiment.
The 87-year-old's first SoCal show in more than 50 years, opening Feb. 10 at the Broad, features several flag paintings and other iconic works by the highest-valued living artist. By Maxwell Williams ...