Jasper Johns: Night Driver Retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao

Jasper Johns's retrospective 'Night Driver' at the Guggenheim Bilbao, on view through 12 October, features around 140 works spanning paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and stage designs. The exhibition, named after a 1960 abstract painting, highlights Johns's career-long exploration of ambiguity and the gap between what the mind knows and what remains unknowable. Key works include 'Flag' (1954-55), 'False Start' (1959), '0 through 9' (1960), and 'Target' (1961), as well as later series like 'Crosshatchings' (1973-83), 'Catenary' (1998-99), and recent pieces such as 'Slice' (2020). The retrospective also includes works from his 2021-22 'Mind/Mirror' exhibition, which was split between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Johns, now 96, has often resisted fixed interpretation, as seen in his interviews with Calvin Tomkins and Terry Winters. The exhibition's catalogue includes a 2010 conversation with Winters. The show is organized by the Guggenheim Bilbao and runs through 12 October 2026.