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Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Wed, Nov 10, 2021
6–7 pm
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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Explore Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror with Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Chief Curator, and Curatorial Assistant Lauren Young. Featuring Johns’s most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, the exhibition is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to his art and includes of a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today.
Appearing simultaneously at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the unique dual structure draws on the artist’s lifelong fascination with mirroring and doubles, so that each half echoes and reflects the other. For this event, Rothkopf and Young will provide an overview of the Whitney’s presentation and then take questions from the audience.
