99 Objects: Scott Rothkopf on Racing Thoughts by Jasper Johns Mon, Aug 3, 2015, 3 pm

99 Objects: Scott Rothkopf on Racing Thoughts by Jasper Johns

Mon, Aug 3, 2015
3 pm

Abstract view of a colorful interior, with photographs artwork reproductions, and artworks on the walls; two vases; a faucet; and words embedded in the patterned background.
Abstract view of a colorful interior, with photographs artwork reproductions, and artworks on the walls; two vases; a faucet; and words embedded in the patterned background.

Jasper Johns, Racing Thoughts, 1983. Encaustic and collage on canvas, 48 1/8 × 75 3/8 in. (122.2 × 191.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Burroughs Wellcome Purchase Fund; Leo Castelli; the Wilfred P. and Rose J. Cohen Purchase Fund; the Julia B. Engel Purchase Fund; the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Purchase Fund; The Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation, Inc.; S. Sidney Kahn; The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund; the Sara Roby Foundation; and the Painting and Sculpture Committee 84.6. © 2021 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Scott Rothkopf, Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, will address Racing Thoughts, 1983 by Jasper Johns (b. 1930).

Named in honor of the Whitney’s new address, 99 Gansevoort Street, 99 Objects is a series of in-gallery programs focusing on individual works of art from the Museum’s collection on view in America Is Hard to See. Speakers include artists, writers, Whitney curators and educators, and an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Programs take place daily.

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