Robert Rauschenberg's art challenged assumptions May 14, 2008
By the 1960s, he was a leader, along with close friend Jasper Johns, in the move away from the angst of abstract expressionism and toward celebration of popular culture. Later, he became a master printmaker; he was one of the first to incorporate commercial silkscreen printing into painting. (USA Today -- Life)
Memories of Rauschenberg: 'A giant among artists' May 14, 2008
One of the Gemini's first prints was by Rauschenberg, who was instrumental in bringing other contemporary artists, such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, to Gemini. "Probably -- no, not probably, he was the most influential person in my life," Rosamund Felsen said. (Los Angeles Times)
Disaster in China May 14, 2008
Blixity , "Building on the work of Marcel Duchamp, Rauschenberg (together with his contemporaries John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and former partner Jasper Johns) opened the doors to chance and gave rise to generations of critical experiments with art, life, and American culture.". And artist Rob Myers : "Rauschenberg's work had a massive impact on me when I first arrived at art school. His art was high stakes aesthetics in which either everything was transformed into art or But it was always... (Slate)
Keep The Stuff Coming May 12, 2008
Here's something I really like: the American flag drawn by the artist Jasper Johns ... I dont know what there is about it that makes it a real work of art but that's why Jasper Johns is an artist and Im not. (CBS News)
New York cool: A transitional generation is given its due May 2, 2008
In this canon of postwar art, only Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns get credit for moving painting beyond the gesture. "New York Cool" reminds us that the art world of the late '50s and early '60s, while smaller than the art world of today, was a multifarious scene shaped by more than a handful of artists. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A colossal private sale by the heirs of a dealer Apr 4, 2008
Sonnabend's art trove, which includes seminal works by artists like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, is valued at more than $1 billion. Taxes on the estate amount to more than half the value of the assets, experts said. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* 'Chromophilia without the color' Mar 5, 2008
That Color Chart coincides with Jasper Johns: Gray at the Metropolitan Museum is a happy accident; in that show the pairing of Johns' red, yellow and blue painting False Start and its neutral counterpart Jubilee amounts to a Pleasantville experience in reverse. Temkin's thesis owes much to the British artist and writer David Batchelor, whose book Chromophobia (2000) is a thorough and witty cultural history of color, including in its thematic discussions Heart of Darkness and the movie version of... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Bill allowing art museum attracts critics to council work session Feb 28, 2008
Consisting mainly of post-World War II pieces, the collection includes master works by Jasper Johns, Frank Stella Ellsworth Kelly and Roy Liechtenstein, Donovan said. Meyerhoff has loaned 40 works of art to the National Gallery. (North County News, MD)
Grey's anatomy Feb 23, 2008
And so to the splendid exhibition I recently visited at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York, where I was reminded of the importance of grey and of the many varieties of greyness and which is devoted to the work of Jasper Johns ... Jasper Johns was hugely influenced by grey ... On the contrary, Jasper Johns first emerged as a force in contemporary art during the late 1950s, with his lush, richly-worked and highly-coloured paintings of flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers, and since... (BBC News -- UK)
The Red Campaign Comes to Sothebys Feb 18, 2008
The Damien Hirst-catalyzed auction drew its momentum from high-powered names in the audience (Martha Stewart, Russell Simmons, Queen Noor, Zhang Ziyi) and on the auction block (Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning). Mr. Hirst, known for his embrace of commercial art, hand-wrote letters to about 50 artists asking to contribute work to the auction after Bono, a co-founder of the campaign, proposed the idea during a vacation in France. (New York Times)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
Important pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein shift the weight back toward pop art and its progeny, which rule again on the floor below, with ensembles of work by Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The visitor leaves BCAM with a question not intended by the museum and its benefactors: Who could warm to this particular constellation of artworks as anything but a triumph of conspicuous consumption or speculative investment. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Auction for AidsBono, Banksy and Hirst join forces for charity art sale Feb 15, 2008
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Bono's Red Auction Rakes In Green Feb 15, 2008
The list of artists who contributed work inspired by the color red was equally glamorous, including the street artist Banksy, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Before Thursday night's art sale, Bono's Product Red project had raised $58 million for the Global Fund. (Forbes)
NYC Auction Raises $42M for AIDS Relief Feb 15, 2008
The auction included pieces donated by dozens of artists, among them Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Hirst gave seven of his works, including "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" a pill cabinet filled with medications used to treat HIV. It sold for $7. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Bono-sponsored art auction raises 42.5 million dollars for AIDS Feb 15, 2008
Artists such as Georg Baselitz, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor and Jeff Koons contributed works for the red-themed Valentine's Day sale, which raised far more than the upper pre-sale estimate of 29 million dollars. Proceeds from the sale, organized by Bono's charity organization (RED), were to go directly to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs run by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Malibu Seen (1) Feb 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Edition. "Museum curator Stephanie Barron has watched the collection grow over the years. "This is a collection that has been built carefully and painstakingly over several decades," Barron says. "Having these works available at LACMA will forever change how future generations of visitors will understand modern art in Los Angeles. (Malibu Times, CA)
L.A.'s Broad museum opens doors Feb 8, 2008
Works by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns and Richard Rauschenberg dominate the third floor. Some Warhols are tucked behind a wall and easy to miss. (Variety)
Jasper Johns: Color in shades of gray Feb 6, 2008
Only one artwork hangs in Jasper Johns's all-white Caribbean home here. It's a nearly nine-foot-tall canvas in three sections: a harlequin pattern that cascades down on the right, a series of colored circles on the left, and a montage of gray encaustic brush strokes in the center. (International Herald Tribune)
A man of few words Feb 6, 2008
Inspired by Jasper Johns' interpretation of numbers, letters, targets and other "things we have looked at but not examined", Ruscha stuck with art school, never dreaming he would ever sell a painting. The first 10 shows he had, he didn't. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bono, Hirst auction combines art, charity in NY Feb 5, 2008
"It's the cream of the international contemporary art crop," Barker said of the roster that includes Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Richard Prince and Takashi Murakami. Hirst contributed seven works, including "Where there's a will there's a way," a monumental medicine chest sculpture containing hundreds of metal HIV pills. (AlertNet)
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The Renzo Piano-designed galleries will be filled in part by selections from the Broads' vast collection, which include key works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (such as his 1967 Flag, above). The Broads have agreed to an unusual open-ended arrangement with LACMA in which they'll loan pieces for display but won't donate them, because they want the art to be seen, not to sit in storage as 90% of museum art collections do. (FastCompany)
Santa Clara University: de Saisset Museum Features Exhibition of 1960s Art From the Extraordinary Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection Jan 19, 2008
Eye on the Sixties includes paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints by artists such as Robert Arneson, Bruce Beasley, Fletcher Benton, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Ronald Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, David Park, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T. Wiley. SCU students played an active role in the creation of the exhibition, contributing their own... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Penn's Photographic Portraits Really Click Jan 18, 2008
Arranged more or less chronologically, they start in the '40s - when Penn began shooting for Vogue - and end with an unblinking shot of painter Jasper Johns in 2006. Somewhere in between are a portrait of John Updike in 1970 - about 400 books and essays ago - his hair and ears swept back like Pan's, with what looks like spinach between his wolfishly big teeth; a bearded Stephen Sondheim, Tevye-like in a wool cap; and Somerset Maugham, age 88, all liver spots and wrinkles. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Get 'em while they're cheap Jan 13, 2008
5-million (U.S.) on a Willem de Kooning landscape, and Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin promptly tops him by spending $80-million on a Jasper Johns piece. Canada is just as capable of producing the hot new rich. (Globe and Mail)
Jim Dine, Tony Labat and Ruth Eckland: wrecks, lies and videotape Dec 16, 2007
The adjacent "Target Painting (To be shot at)" (2007) refers to Jasper Johns' famous "Target" paintings and the economic and cultural realities that make them definitively not to be shot at. The reference to Johns' "Flag" paintings in Labat's "Designated Area" paintings - small, square monochromes, each with a phallic flagpole holder attached - does not lift them above facile political statement. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ten Priciest U.S. Home Sales Of 2007 Dec 7, 2007
5 million and a Jasper Johns for $80 million; Christie's moved $395 million and Sotheby's (nyse: - - ) sold $270 million of art in November shows. While the hedge-fund millionaire's cash fuels both luxury markets, how much longer it can last is a question that haunts the Street. (Forbes)
Celeb Auction to Support HIV Programs Dec 6, 2007
Among the contributing artists: Hirst, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. The sale's proceeds - estimated at more than $40 million - will go to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa conducted by The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, Sotheby's said Wednesday. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Modern Photography Exhibitions Dec 2, 2007
Among the Important figures from the visual arts, literature, dance, music, theatre and film (1944-2006) included are Giorgio de Chirico, , Jasper Johns, Langston Hughes, Igor Stravinsky, Truman Capote, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, Rudolf Nureyev and Simone de Beauvoir. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY USA: January 18-April 13, 2008. (Suite101.com)
Damien who? Will Hirst stand the test of time? Nov 25, 2007
Will Hirst stand the test of time. from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. (Independent)
Warhol car crashes sales barrier Nov 14, 2007
Records were broken by more than half of the 50 artists represented, including British artist Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter and Donald Judd. Another Warhol painting, Lemon Marilyn, fetched $28m (14m). (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Window wonderland Nov 9, 2007
It is no exaggeration to say that some of these displays are ephemeral works of art: after all, both Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns counted window dressing among their early works ... Other 60s pop artists followed suit - Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine and Jasper Johns were all involved with Christmas displays for the store. (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: Louise Nevelson's found at the de Young Nov 8, 2007
Younger gay contemporaries such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol (1926-1987) also forswore New York School male posturing, but in the '50s they benefited by an informal conspiracy of denial in a way that Nevelson could not. Did success as a female artist require Nevelson to blow off marriage and motherhood as she did - when her son was 9 - to study in Europe with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), Chaim Gross (1904-1991) and others there, and later in New York. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A masterful body of work Oct 26, 2007
Sets by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns are displayed as artworks at the National Gallery of Victoria. All these elements - and more - outline the context of Cunningham's dance. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ileana Sonnabend, 92,art dealer Oct 25, 2007
The list is long, and remains an astounding record of an artistic era studded with names like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, George Baselitz and Jeff Koons. Sonnabend's exhibitions often had the art world talking. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Contemporary (Art) Madness Oct 21, 2007
Post: Your collection includes works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cindy Sherman that are held in both a private collection and a foundation. All of these will be available for Lacma curators to fill the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), to which you have given 60 million. (New York Post -- Business)
Smithsonian Given Castelli Records Oct 20, 2007
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Yue Minjun Wins, Damien Hirst Loses at Sotheby's Art Auction in London Oct 13, 2007
Hirst, 42, became the auction world's priciest living artist in June, overtaking older figures including Jasper Johns of the U.S. and Lucian Freud of the U.K., when a Hirst pill cabinet, ``Lullaby Spring,'' took 9. 7 million pounds including commission at Sotheby's. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Popping the art bubble Oct 7, 2007
9m pickled shark while last year Griffin paid 39m for False Start by Jasper Johns. The vast fortunes earned on Wall Street and in the City far exceed the relatively small turnover of the art world. (Times Online)
America's creative elite invade Berlin Oct 7, 2007
According to Damaso Reyes of the cultural magazine Krax: 'Gone are the days when up-and-coming painters such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg could rent a huge loft in Manhattan for just a few hundred dollars a month. . (Guardian Unlimited)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's good life (in London) Oct 3, 2007
Those who have visited say it is filled with American art, including works by Andy Warhol, Henry Moore and Jasper Johns. It also reflects Bloomberg's love of finery, with a heavily molded ceiling, mahogany doors and marble columns. (International Herald Tribune)
Read Indepth Article Oct 2, 2007
Almost single-handedly, artist Jasper Johns reintroduced encaustic to the art world. Since that time, it has steadily gained acceptance. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Evicted Artist Sells Treasures Sep 24, 2007
" Wilson wrote in an e-mail: "I kept more than 3,000 pieces at the loft, not counting my own work: 20th-century furniture, tribal art, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, contemporary glass, Asian art and contemporary drawings, photographs, works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Man Ray, Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Agnes Martin and Richard Serra. "My space has always been mostly about my artwork and my collection," Wilson said of his longtime sanctuary. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Traditional Santa Fe embraces future Aug 11, 2007
(Though there are exceptions even there, such as the new Gallery Moda, which has a formidable collection of post-war prints by American artists, Ellsworth Kelly, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Motherwell among them. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
* Cooling off at MoMA on a summer's day Aug 2, 2007
For greenery, though, nothing is greener than Jasper Johns' Green Target (1955): leaf-green, hope-green, it's a traffic light set on "go.". And if you obey it, you'll soon clear the woods and find yourself on a rise, approaching the sea. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Before the soup can Jul 29, 2007
In 1958, Jasper Johns had a show at the Leo Castelli Gallery, of images of everyday objects. The show sold out. (Times Online)
Feast on fine artDowntown restaurant showcases works paying tribute to Cuba and great classic artists Jul 29, 2007
Other artists on the tabletops include Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollack, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol and others. The project is also part of his philosophy of how art should be appreciated. (West New York Reporter, NJ)
Resident dynamo reveals third act Jul 20, 2007
Artists represented include Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ernesto Neto and Daniel Arsham. Launching her third festival, Edmunds cautiously acknowledges some changes from her first two events, which were criticised for concentrating too much on cutting-edge works. (The Age)
Hotels so nice, celebrities call them home Jul 20, 2007
Scores of literary lions and artists including Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Dylan Thomas, Jasper Johns, Eugene ONeill, Thomas Wolfe, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan resided there, toiling at their art. Every writer who has lived here came because another great writer who they respected, created here, explains Chelsea Hotel managing director Stanley Bard. (MSNBC -- Travel)
From poison to dynamo Jul 20, 2007
God knows what Melbourne's conservative critics would make of Cage's famed work 4'33", four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, which was revelatory in its day, and other conceptual pieces. But they seem damned pleased his dancer friend is coming out. In addition to a more conventional indoor program, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will create The Melbourne Event, a large-scale, free event in Federation Square that will elaborate Cunningham's interest in chance and computer-generated array.... (The Australian)
Peek into the past 10 private home tours Jul 18, 2007
Johnson's partner, museum curator David Whitney (both men passed away in 2005), left works by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly to the estate. What makes tours like these so compelling, says Richard Moe, CEO and president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving historic places, is that they give visitors a peek into the past. (MSNBC -- Travel)
* Portrait of the artist as curator, and the dealer as artist Jul 12, 2007
In one area, a grouping of works by masters like Jasper Johns, Joseph Beuys and Bruce Nauman offers wonderful contrasts of pale waxy surfaces and ambiguous forms. But they are also ballyhooed by the kitschy irreverence of Emily Kaufman's nearby Girl on a Fainting Couch, a 1975 work in pinkish cast epoxy and fiberglass that melds an odalisque and her dainty chaise into a single, gleaming, undulant sheet of plastic-fantastic flesh. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Bacon, Freud Joined Top Artists in Sales That Made $883 Million Jun 26, 2007
In the contemporary arena, U.K. artist Hirst, 41, became the auction world's priciest living artist at Sotheby's, overtaking Jasper Johns, born in 1920, when a telephone bidder paid 9. 7 million pounds for ``Lullaby Spring,'' which cost the U.S. seller about 730,000 pounds in 2002, auctioneers said. (Bloomberg)
$22.8m: artist's sweet pill to swallow Jun 24, 2007
So was Jasper Johns, whose world auction record for a living artist of $US17. 4 million (8. (The Age)
The latest jobs blarney comes out in the wash Jun 23, 2007
By age 27, Einstein and Schubert had done their best work, Jasper Johns had peaked, and the economist Paul Samuelson had made the big breakthrough that later won him the Nobel Prize. But despite robust economic conditions, all but the most qualified and clever young people seem to take longer to get established these days in decent work. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Hirst now most expensive living artist Jun 23, 2007
LONDON Britain's Damien Hirst has been crowned the world's most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a title held for years by Jasper Johns of the United States. It was the high point of a frenetic week of London art auctions that saw records tumbling like ninepins and which is likely to get close to $1-billion (U.S.) when it ends later on Friday. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Hirst work becomes most expensive ever for living artist at auction Jun 23, 2007
4 million dollars for a work by Jasper Johns sold at Christie's in New York last month. It was sold as part of Sotheby's Contemporary Art sale in London, which included the sale of a 1978 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, which sold for 21. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Hirst cabinet sets auction record Jun 22, 2007
Hirst succeeds US artist Jasper Johns, whose Figure 4 sold for $17. 4m (8. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Friends recall Glass House, now open to public Jun 14, 2007
"I don't think clutter was allowed," said the painter Jasper Johns, a friend of both men ... Jasper Johns, artist: One of the first times I visited him there I said, "Philip, it's so incredible that you've found this location for your house, because you're not aware of being in it, you're just aware of this incredible landscape." Philip said, "Yes, I was very fortunate." And then he said, "David, I think next year we'll put those trees over there." And I suddenly had an insight into how he... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Big season for art shows in Europe Jun 9, 2007
Henry Moore's international reputation was helped when he was awarded the prize for sculpture in 1948, while Jasper Johns was already well-acclaimed when he won the grand prize in 1988. The awards are now called Golden Lions like the Venice Film Festival tributes. (Yahoo News)
Giants of British art to star in Royal Academy summer show Jun 7, 2007
Some of Britain and America's most eminent artists, including Michael Craig-Martin, David Hockney and Jasper Johns, will be showing their work at the Royal Academy from today in one of the most impressive Summer Exhibitions in its history. Hockney's 40ft scenic painting of Yorkshire will form the largest work of the much-heralded collection, while the creations of the former Turner Prize nominees Tracey Emin and Issac Julien will feature alongside American artists Johns, Ed Ruscha, Robert... (Independent)
Escaping the 'white box' Jun 7, 2007
The first room in the exhibition is a feast of famous exhibitors: a Jasper Johns (displayed for the first time at the Acamdey since the late 80s) sits next to an Antoni Tapies, and Gavin Turk's Dumb Candle sits on a plinth next to a Marcus Harvey (famed for his portrait of Myra Hindley which was vandalised during its appearance at the Academy's Sensations exhibition in the late 90s). Sandwiched inbetween is the work of London-based Japanese artist Jiro Osugo - a debut which holds its own amidst... (Channel 4 News)
The hidden cost of sky-high art prices Jun 3, 2007
Like the MFA, the Rose is in a situation in which the one area that it can still be a player is the acquisition of works by younger artists whose prices have not risen the way those by artists like Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns have. Recently the museum was able to raise $70,000 to purchase a painting by Dana Schutz , a 30-year - old rising star whose work has not yet become unaffordable. (Boston Globe -- Living)
How Wall Street's Top Earners Live Jun 2, 2007
One month prior, Kenneth Griffin, managing director of Citadel Investment Group, paid Geffen $80 million for "False Start" by Jasper Johns. This type of spending may seem overindulgent, but when you're Renaissance Technologies chief James Simons making $1. (Forbes)
'Marilyn chapel' to star again after 40 years May 25, 2007
As well as works by Warhol, Ray Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Ray Johnson, paintings by the British artists Sir Peter Blake and David Hockney will reveal the way in which Britain breathed new life into Pop Art. The Marilyn gallery will recreate the tribute show, Homage to Marilyn Monroe, held at the Sydney Janis Gallery in New York, five years after she died. (Independent)
From Monroe to Gaitskell - pop art on show May 24, 2007
The exhibition next October will match big-name American artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns against their British counterparts Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, with subjects including John Kennedy, Elvis Presley, James Dean - and Hugh Gaitskell. The gallery's director, Sandy Nairne, said yesterday that the period was a turning point in portraiture, pointing the way to today's experiments such as Sam Taylor Wood's video portrait of a sleeping David... (Guardian Unlimited)
