Imagine this curatorial nightmare. You persuade a collector to loan a modern masterpiece, purchased in 1988 for a record-breaking $17 million, for a blockbuster exhibition. Then, just weeks before ...

A single venue was not enough. Jasper Johns needed two major American museums to host his 90th year birthday retrospective (91st to be precise, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic). “Jasper Johns: ...

LOS ANGELES — Not long ago, Jasper Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, was reminiscing about his childhood in small-town South Carolina. One day when he was ...

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: ...

American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is best-known for two things: He was the first living artist to sell a painting for more than $1 million, and he painted the American flag hundreds of times. But ...

Vik Muniz is known for reimagining art-historical imagery in a medium that specifically makes commentary on the masterwork. The Brazilian artist has used chocolate, jelly, tomato sauce, diamonds, toys ...

I walked into the Jasper Johns exhibition at Matthew Marks last week with Ashley Bickerton, and Ashley immediately began to touch and feel the heavy metal sculptures, Johns’ classic number sequences, ...

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 ...

From Jackson Pollock’s solo debut to Philip Guston’s recent retrospective, a look at the exhibitions that have shaped the city’s art scene and the culture at large. By Kate Guadagnino Amid high ...