Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg Compared to Mallarmé and Whitman
The artcritical archive on Jasper Johns covers a range of exhibitions and critical perspectives. A spring show presented his mordant late works. A group exhibition connected form and narrative. The Philadelphia Museum of Art featured works from Audubon to Warhol through January 10. A report covered a museum's architecture and inaugural exhibition. A tour surveyed art offerings in the Pacific Northwest, including Canada. An exhibition explored gray as color and metaphor. Another questioned whether trompe-l'oeil painting is anti-climactic. A show aimed to shore up a reputation. A young artist's debut on the Lower East Side played with language, drawing, and commercial processes. The archive compares Johns to Mallarmé and Rauschenberg to Walt Whitman.
Key facts
- Mordant late works by Jasper Johns were on view earlier this spring.
- A recent group show connected dots between form and narrative.
- From Audubon to Warhol exhibition at Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 10.
- A report on a museum's architecture and its inaugural exhibition.
- A tour of art offerings throughout the Pacific Northwest, including Canada.
- A show about gray as a color and metaphor.
- Trompe-l'oeil painting questioned as inherently anti-climactic.
- Exhibition as exercise in shoring up reputation.
- A young artist's debut on the Lower East Side plays with language, drawing, and commercial processes.
- Johns compared to Mallarmé, Rauschenberg to Walt Whitman.
Entities
Artists
- Jasper Johns
- Robert Rauschenberg
- John James Audubon
- Andy Warhol
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Walt Whitman
Institutions
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- artcritical
Locations
- Philadelphia
- United States
- Lower East Side
- New York City
- Pacific Northwest
- Canada