A new exhibition revisits a turning point in the career of the 95-year-old artist: the paintings that faced down death to find meaning in life.
The show acts a farewell to one of Gagosian's Upper East Side spaces, which opened in 1989 with a Johns exhibition.
Jasper Johns, “Untitled” (2015), monotype on Sommerset Velvet Cream paper, 37 3/8 x 29 7/8 inches (© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA, New York, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) Editor’s Note: This is ...
The exhibit, "Jasper Johns: Light Bulb," is quiet and unassuming, much like the artist himself. It does not attempt to be comprehensive, but instead presents the light bulb motif as a lens through ...
Jasper Johns, “Regrets” (2013), oil on canvas, 50 × 72 in (© Jasper Johns / licensed by VAGA, New York, NY) (photo by Jerry Thompson) One wants one’s work to be the world, but of course it’s never the ...
A closeup of a slice of “Green Angel,” a colored etching by Jasper Johns from 1991. Photo credit: Courtesy, San Diego Museum of Art The San Diego Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Jasper Johns: ...
Collaborations between writers and artists can be a source of intense creative artistic expression. These partnerships may take a variety of forms with the most traditional on being that of the artist ...
American painter Jasper Johns shook up the art world by reconceptualizing common icons like targets, numbers, and letters—and it all began in 1954 with Flag. 1. Flag was painted after Jasper Johns ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1742): Jasper Johns made this gorgeous print in 1978, and it is now in a group show at one of the Matthew Marks spaces in New York. It is a riff on Johns’s 1960 rendering of a coffee ...
Artist Jasper Johns in his studio, a converted horse barn, in Sharon, Conn., on February 2, 2018. Credit - Andrew White—The New York Times/Redux The retrospectives at the Whitney and in Philadelphia ...
The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.
Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today. By Carol Vogel A timely group show in ...