Jasper Johns Marks Time
A Hyperallergic roundup titled “Jasper Johns Marks Time” centers on critic John Yau’s essay timed to a Gagosian exhibition focusing on Jasper Johns’s work from the 1970s, including a recollection in which Johns acknowledged that materials like newsprint, hot wax, and bedsheets are “falling apart.” The same edition also reports that the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York acquired a rarely seen early-career portrait by Wifredo Lam, described by the museum director as having “fell through the cracks of scholarship.” It highlights Naib Mian’s profile of New York-based archivist Saad Khan, who has built “Khajistan” since 2019 as a digital and physical archive of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb. Additional news items include research in American Antiquity suggesting dice may date back more than 12,000 years and a report that two board members of California’s Djerassi Resident Artists Program visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Saint James in 2011.
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This story was covered in Museum Power Shifts and Restitution Reckonings