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Jasper Johns’s Landmark ‘Crosshatch’ Paintings Anchor Major Gagosian Survey

Gagosian has unveiled plans for a major Jasper Johns survey in New York, spotlighting his "Crosshatch" and "Corpse and Mirror ...
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Gagosian to stage survey of Jasper Johns's crosshatch paintings in New York

Half a century after Jasper Johns first unveiled his crosshatched paintings at Leo Castelli Gallery, the series is returning ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
LAist

The Broad mounts a massive Jasper Johns exhibit

With 100 works from his long career, it's the first major survey of the 87-year-old's work in the history of L.A. The man who may be America’s greatest living artist is having his first LA show in ...
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Jasper Johns exhibit opening at The Broad museum in LA

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 ...
New York Post

Jasper Johns testimony helps land forger in jail

Brian Ramnarine (left) walking out of court after being sentenced to 30 months in prison thanks in part to the testimony of artist Jasper Johns. AP, Gregory P. Mango A Queens foundry owner was ...
The New York Times

Jasper Johns

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Three Flags’ and other rare Jasper Johns works unveiled at the Broad

One night in 1954, Jasper Johns had a dream: He was painting the image of an American flag. He rose the next morning, stretched his bed sheets into a makeshift canvas and began re-creating the picture ...
Los Angeles Times

Review: Does the Broad’s new Jasper Johns exhibition hit the bull’s-eye? It gets darn close

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 ...
Harper's Bazaar

The Meaning of Jasper Johns

To say that Jasper Johns is ambivalent about having to discuss the intentions or meanings behind his art would imply that there is some part of it he doesn’t find distasteful. Johns has always been ...