Jasper Johns
Don’t Ask Him Why
© Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
It is what it is: Racing Thoughts (1984).
Jasper Johns seems like a down-to-earth kind of guy. In an interview conducted by curator Nan Rosenthal, published in the catalog accompanying “Jasper Johns: Gray,” an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mr. Johns answers questions with Hemingway-like curtness. It’s a self-effacing performance. You didn’t have to be there to register his droll, deadpan demeanor.
Ms. Rosenthal quizzes the artist on his gray paintings and often comes away with … not much. Mr. Johns isn’t belligerent or evasive. read more »
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Bill Jensen
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Brigitte Lacombe
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Master mimic: Arshile Gorky
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Dubrow’s Crisp Canvases Engage Tradition, City Life
Courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art
John Dubrow
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Dubrow's Crisp Canvases Engage Tradition, City Life
There’s no epithet in the art world quite as damning or feared as “conservative.” Sounds dread read more »
Sophisticated Sicilian Was In Step With Masters of Northern Europe
Museo della Fondazione Culturale Mandralisca, Cefal
Irresistibly shifty: Antonello da Messina
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Julie Mehretu's Works on Paper Favor Cold Precision Over Depth
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May 4, 2005 – May 11, 2005
Wednesday 4thSome more things we're just not on board with: the warmed-over meat loaf that is the ne read more »
Greatest Generation? Not By a Long Shot, But Interesting Show
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Two Roads Diverged-Guess Which One Warhol Took
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Barbra Streisand Asks $10.5 Million for Her Penthouse; Spike Lee Buys Upper East Side Town House
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