![]() ![]() "What’s interesting to me is the fact that it isn’t designed, but taken," Johns has said. The American flag is hard-wired into our brains. "Things the mind already knows," he called them. Johns was simply attracted to the abstract pattern - just as he also attracted to targets, maps, numbers and other motifs he returned to again and again. They are not, he has insisted over the years, a political statement - though the Museum of Modern Art, in 1958, was initially nervous about hanging them for just that reason. In 2010, one of his flag paintings sold for $110 million - reportedly the most money paid for any work by a living artist. Since 1954, he has done more than 40 images in encaustic: some red white and blue, some yellow green and black, some all-white, some doubled, some tripled. Most people think, immediately, of his flags. "He's really such a towering figure - we just try to pay justice to his complexity," said Carlos Basualdo, curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which is hosting the other half.īoth curators worked closely with each other, with input from Johns himself, to create the dual shows, which are meant to mirror each other - just as the art of Johns, with its multiple takes on the same subject, often mirrored itself. "Johns was a trailblazer because he turned his attention to everyday things - a target, a flag - which he depicted so plainly that people almost didn't think they were art," said Scott Rothkopf, curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which is hosting one half of the exhibit. 29 and Feb.13. After all, Johns is one of the MVPs of American art. But it will probably send fans scurrying to their local depot to purchase commuter tickets, between Sept. A single art exhibition, shared between two different museums 94 miles apart. "Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror" is an experiment. And what goes for baseball fans, shuttling between stadiums, also goes for art lovers. and Katherine Sachs Lauren Young Sarah B.Watch Video: Steampunk art exhibit comes to Morristown museum ![]() Click here for more information Carlos Basualdo Jasper Johns Keith L. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists themselves, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. Mrs Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists at a time when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 – 1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Vogelman, exhibition assistant, in Philadelphia, and Lauren Young, curatorial assistant, in New York. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with Sarah B. The organizing curators are Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. This exhibition is co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ![]() A visit to one museum or the other will provide a vivid chronological survey a visit to both will offer an innovative and immersive exploration of the many phases, facets, and masterworks of Johns’s still-evolving career. The two halves of the exhibition will act as reflections of one another, spotlighting themes, methods, and images that echo across the two venues. ![]() Featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, many shown publicly for the first time, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is inspired by the artist’s long-standing fascination with mirroring and doubles. In an unprecedented collaboration, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney will stage a retrospective of Johns’s career simultaneously across the two museums from Septemto February 13, 2022. 1930) has produced a radical and varied body of work marked by constant reinvention. Over the past sixty-five years, Jasper Johns (b. Presented simultaneously at the Whitney and the Philadelphia of Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror opens on Septemand will be on view through February 13, 2022. This unprecedented collaboration is the artist’s first major museum retrospective on the East Coast in nearly a quarter-century and will feature more than 500 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. ![]()
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