First Look: Jasper Johns ‘Slice’

The newest painting by Jasper Johns was inspired by a fan letter from a female astrophysicist. Here’s a first look.

First Look: Jasper Johns 'Slice'

The New York Times – by Deborah Solomon

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. 29 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Slice” is a large, horizontal and predominantly black oil painting that combines unrelated images of a map of outer space and a human knee.

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