Monday, June 25, 2018

A Conversation About Jasper Johns' Oeuvre Is The Perfect Time To Ask Who Gets Remembered, And How?

And there's time for some anecdotes as well: "When you go to Lincoln Center, you see there’s a big sculpture that Johns made and one of the things I found out about it is that there’s a footprint by Merce Cunningham. He said to me Merce Cunningham had always wanted to be accepted into Lincoln Center and he never had been, so he got his footprint into the piece and the piece is now in Lincoln Center. That’s pretty performative. And it’s got a wonderful sense of humor that these two men must have just cackled over, because it also says something about society and a kind of rejection/acceptance. They kind of wiggled their way through it anyway."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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