‘One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now’: So does it make sense for a museum exhibition to use Asian American identity as its organizing principle? Based on “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now,” which ends a 20-month tour at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo on May 4, the answer is yes. [LA Times]
Martian Museum: The strange art of planet earth: One of the year’s zaniest shows considers what a Martian critic might make of human creations. [Telegraph]
Alluring Shades of a Steely Hue: From the early years of Jasper Johns’s career in the 1950s, he labored to be entirely original, going so far as to destroy all of his existing works in the fall of 1954 and start from scratch. One way he separated himself from predecessors and peers was not to think about his paintings as windows on the world, like the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, or on emotionality and subjectivity, like the Abstract Expressionists. Instead, he wanted us to see his paintings as objects in and of themselves. “A picture,” he has said, “ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.” [WSJ]
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