Museum admission is 25 for adults, and advanced, timed-entry tickets are. JASPER JOHNS The 50th Anniversary of the Whitney Museum, 1980, silkscreenPaper size: 45 5/8 x 29 7/8 inchImages size: 45 5/8 x 29 7/8 inchprinted by Stony. He effectively laid the foundation for the Pop Art movement's aesthetic embrace of commodity culture with his playfully subversive appropriation of common signs and products. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror at the Whitney opens today for members, and on Thursday, September 30, to the general public. By representing common objects and images in the realm of fine art, Johns broke down the boundaries traditionally separating fine art and everyday life. I feel like he’s been miscast a bit about being so mysterious, like he’s some sort of Holden Caulfield.
During the solitary months of the pandemic, he completed a painting titled Slice, and a group of related drawings. He did so by initiating a dialogue with the viewer and their cultural context through his artistic exploration of how people see the things around them. Co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is a single exhibition in two venues, filling almost 30,000 combined. Jasper Johns/ULAE/VAGA/Artists Rights Society/The Whitney Museum of American Art. At 91, Jasper Johns is turning out impressive and touchingly personal work. Johns engaged with modernist precedents like the original Dada movement and Abstract Expressionism in order to actively refute the hierarchy of modernism that reduced the aesthetic experience to the distinct material qualities of the medium and removed it from the viewer's life.
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