Tag: Jasper Johns
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Bernar Venet – interview: ‘My dream is not to make big sculpture, but sculptures that are new, radical, different’
As his solo show opens at Waddington Custot in London, the man dubbed France’s ‘greatest living sculptor’ talks about curiosity, popularity and the quest for reinvention
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Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Last of the last, with Baldessari gone, of the great philosopher-artists, Jasper Johns is taking a twinned victory lap around two major museums in a bifurcated retrospective that confirms his place in the pantheon
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Billy Apple interview: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1961–2018
Billy Apple is not just an artist – he’s a trademarked brand. He talks about exchanging his art for a knee operation and his new exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, London
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Rose Wylie: Quack Quack
The octogenarian painter’s enormous, unpredictable canvases are by turns joyful and fearsome, introvert and extrovert, ordered and chaotic
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Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’
The first comprehensive exhibition of Jasper Johns to be held in the UK in the past 40 years looks back over six decades of this great American artist’s work
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Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place
During her tragically short career, Joan Eardley concentrated on two contrasting areas of Scotland, which form the focus of this exhibition
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Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life
Despite the vast differences in the style and intention of their work, this exhibition attempts to show how Munch’s imagery entered Johns’s psyche and then lay dormant for years, only to resurface transformed
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Judith Wechsler: ‘Film allows, even invites, inclusivity of media. It’s one of the reasons I love making films’
The American film-maker and art historian discusses her remarkable body of documentaries on art, including her latest project, a suggestively melancholy portrait of Aby Warburg
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Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns
This, the first show ever devoted to metalpoint, includes works by some of the greatest artists and is the finest exhibition dedicated to the history of drawing that we are likely to experience.
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Jasper Johns: Regrets
Jasper Johns’ new works at the Courtauld Gallery, Regrets, take inspiration from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the photographer John Deakin. The result is a powerful, if enigmatic exhibition
