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Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg Compared to Mallarmé and Whitman

other · 2026-04-24

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

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