Jasper Johns: Regrets, a show of new work, will run from March 15 to September 1 at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. From Financial Times Magazine:
“There is an introspective poignancy to the work, a declarative statement in the artist’s late period – he turns 84 in May. It may be viewed as a window to the artist’s own state of mind, a vigorous confrontation with the waning of life by a virtuoso painter and draughtsman. The impact is potent enough that when two curators from the Museum of Modern Art paid separate studio visits last summer, they both proposed putting it directly into a solo exhibition at the museum, bypassing the typical introductory show at Matthew Marks Gallery.”
Additional information and better photos of the work here on Hyperallergic. Here’s the unfortunate story about the $6.5 M theft by his assistant of Johns’ work.
