Even people who love Jasper Johns’ art call it enigmatic and indecipherable. “Artists are obsessed with seeing, and he keeps showing us things we cannot see,” said poet and critic John Yau during a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When Jasper John’s flag and target paintings made their debut in 1958, they gave him instant acclaim and made him a critical link between Abstract Expressionism and Pop ...

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 ...

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: ...

A fortunate exhibition of Jasper Johns flag drawings at Craig F. Starr Gallery presents mostly early drawings, from 1955 and 1956, in a variety of mediums,graphite wash, pencil, ink, collage, ...

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 ...

Often called the greatest living American artist, Jasper Johns is as blue chip as an artist can be. His work is in the collection of most major modern and contemporary museums globally. The Dallas ...

Jasper Johns’s career began with a desperate act. At 24, in 1954, he said he wanted to “stop becoming, and to be an artist,” and destroyed nearly all his art. Then came a kind of vision. “I dreamed I ...

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 ...

“Jasper Johns: A Life’s Work”: a conversation at the Dweck Center of the Brooklyn Public Library, April 26, 2018; from left: John Yau, William Villalongo, Martha Wilson, and Caitlin Sweeney; photo: ...