‘You Become Better with Age’
Artists who are going strong at 80 and up find that old age offers freedom, self-assurance, and room to explore Read More
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Tag Archives: Jasper Johns
Words with Friends: Artist-Poet Pairings
Picasso, Ashbery, Rivers, Johns, Motherwell, Alberti and more in “The Artist and the Poet” at the Art Institute of Chicago Read More
The Golden Age of Abstraction: Right Now
Riffing on the past as it comments on our own time, contemporary abstraction evokes landscapes, bodies, signs, buildings, and much more Read More
Auto-Destructive Tendencies
Whether by burning, cutting, shredding, or simply leaving them at the curb, artists have various reasons for disposing of their own works Read More
The Joke’s on Us
Scholars are looking at the history of modernism through the history of its pranks Read More
Backdrops, Blobs, Pods, and Props
The Walker Art Center celebrates its acquisition of a trove of objects documenting artists’ collaborations with Merce Cunningham in a series of groundbreaking shows Read More
Talking Trash
More and more artists are using trash not just as a material but also as a subject. Read More
Night of the Living Koons
From Monet’s water lilies to Rodin’s thinker, art comes to life in the new Night at the Museum movie. Read More
Top Ten ARTnews Stories: The First Word on Pop
A series of early interviews with the leaders of Pop art defined a movement. Read More
Say It with Flowers—or Gourds, Goats, Fur Cups, or Fried Eggs
The interpretation of sexual symbols in art is everywhere. But what we view as erotic often tells us less about the artists than it does about our own sensibilities. Read More
The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists
Tracking the highest prices paid for contemporary artworks. Read More
What Makes a Great Painting Great?
Experts on Johns, Warhol, and Richter explain how they evaluate a modern masterpiece. Read More
