Artnet

If You Don’t Think Jasper Johns Can Still Surprise You, Wait Until You Get to the End of This Review

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 ...

ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Museum salutes state's greatest artist

Born just across the river in Augusta but raised in Allendale, Columbia, Lake Murray and Sumter in the Palmetto State, Jasper ...
Forbes

Momentous Jasper Johns Retrospective Reveals Parallel Narratives At The Whitney And Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Transforming Our Perception Of The Unrivaled Living Master

Jasper Johns, Racing Thoughts, 1983. Encaustic and collage on canvas, 48 1/8 × 75 3/8 in. (122.2 × 191.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome ...
Artnet

What Ghosts Haunt Jasper Johns’s New Skeleton Paintings? We May Never Know (and That’s the Point)

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Jasper Johns Keeps Looking

Jasper Johns in his studio (c. 1976–80) (© 1991 Hans Namuth Estate; photo Hans Namuth, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona) In his poem “My Heart Leaps Up” (1802), William ...
Hyperallergic

Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part Two

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 Boston Globe

At the Whitney in New York, ‘Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror’ offers new look at famously inscrutable artist

NEW YORK — The fifth floor elevators at the Whitney Museum of American Art whisk open to a kaleidoscope of Jasper Johns. It’s a broad and restless confrontation of the work of one of the country’s ...
University of Wyoming

Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor

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 ...
Times of San Diego

Mystery Motif in Jasper Johns’ Art on View in New Exhibit at SD Museum of Art

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: ...
New York Post

Jasper Johns’ former home de-listed to ‘re-adjust’ price amid demand

Home is where the art is: The former home of Jasper Johns is poised to receive a price adjustment to reflect demand, we hear. Scott McMenamin / Popperfoto via Getty Images A rustic Stony Point, NY, ...
The New Yorker

Jasper Johns and the Question of Meaning

Face in hands, the stricken soldier contorts in agony, evidently weeping and plainly oblivious of being observed, alone in an equipment shed. His name and that of the intrusive photojournalist appear ...