On Jasper Johns and the canvas closet.(GUEST OPINION)

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | May 1, 2008| | Copyright

SOON AFTER taking in Jasper Johns: Gray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (February 5-May 4, 2008), I attended a "Sunday at the Met" event with lectures by major Johns scholars. I was once again dumbfounded by the fact that the speakers could so blithely avoid dealing with Johns' gayness or with sexual issues at all. Thus I was gratified upon learning (via the NYU QueerArt list) that a counter-symposium was being planned to focus on the importance of sexuality in Jasper Johns' art. This symposium, which was free and open to the public, was in my view a very necessary ...

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