I consider Jasper Johns to be one of my biggest influences as an artist. I would love to return to Whitney and Philadelphia Museum of Art to see this joint retrospective.
Johns was born on this date in 1930.
“NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA, March 2, 2020—The most ambitious retrospective to date of the work of Jasper Johns, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be presented simultaneously in New York and Philadelphia this fall. A single exhibition in two venues, this unprecedented collaboration, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, will be the artist’s first major museum retrospective on the East Coast in nearly a quarter century. It opens concurrently in Philadelphia and in New York on October 28, 2020.
https://press.philamuseum.org/in-fall-2020-a-lifetime-retrospective-dedicated-to-jasper-johns-will-be-presented-simultaneously-in-new-york-and-philadelphia/”
Artist Jasper Johns photographed with his work at the Whitney in New York City, October 1977.| Jack Mitchell/Getty Images