Even people who love Jasper Johns’ art call it enigmatic and indecipherable. “Artists are obsessed with seeing, and he keeps showing us things we cannot see,” said poet and critic John Yau during a ...

It is the result of “kismet—and a little bit of planning” that the Menil Collection in Houston will open its new $40m home for its Drawing Institute with a solo show of Jasper Johns and release its ...

The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) HOUSTON — After six years in the making and $40 million in investment, the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) building ...

The British Museum’s exhibition of some 100 drawings in silverpoint and, more rarely, goldpoint, begins with a juxtaposition of hands. A pair, gracefully poised though unnaturally flexed, by the ...

Often called the greatest living American artist, Jasper Johns is as blue chip as an artist can be. His work is in the collection of most major modern and contemporary museums globally. The Dallas ...

A new work debuting in a major exhibition raises complex questions about artistic license and appropriation SALISBURY, CONN. — The artist — not just any artist but perhaps America’s most famous living ...

“It requires an effort to keep a grip on reality but otherwise it’s a huge advance,” he says of the digital design tools he now uses. Over the course of his 35-year career, the brilliant British ...