At 91, Jasper Johns is turning out impressive and touchingly personal work. During the solitary months of the pandemic, he completed a painting titled “Slice,” and a group of related drawings and prints. Likely to be a standout of his upcoming show, “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” a two-venue retrospective opening Sept.
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Behind Jasper Johns's New Exhibition 'Mind/Mirror'
“Most viewers will only see the show in one of two places,” he declared at the outset, adding that he had felt that way even before Covid-19 curtailed travel. Then he talked about numbers. “The scale is tremendous,” he noted, tallying the square footage of the two museums for me.