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 ...
NPR

The Flag Still Flies For Jasper Johns

A guide at the Jasper Johns exhibition at The Broad museum in Los Angeles smiles. Then she urges: "Go look at that one." Brianna MacGillivray points at "Flags," from 1965. The painting is enigmatic, ...
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

In Pictures: See the Highly Ambitious, Two-City Jasper Johns Retrospective at the Whitney and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Between its two parts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror” has a staggering amount of work in it. The giant two-part career ...
ABC7

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...