The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Jasper Johns, The Critic Sees, 1961, Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Feb 5, 2008 – May 4, 2008
Tuesdays–Thursdays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (9:30am–9pm)
Sundays (9:30am–5:30pm)
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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$20 museum admission
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In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use of symbols and icons, also cleared the canvas for minimalism in white, black, and gray. His position between movements, however, runs deeper. As a conceptualist, he painted over scraps of newspapers and magazines (creating subtext, literally) to raise an impasto of non-delineated composition that sat well with his abstract-expressionist contemporaries. He moved to New York from Augusta, Georgia, as a queer man at the crest of the city's chapter in art history. This exhibition provides background for a concurrent show of more recent works at the Matthew Marks Gallery.
