Canceled: Contemporaries: Jasper Johns Birthday Party
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Celebrate the eminent artist’s 90th birthday with the Contemporaries! We’ll enjoy cake, art-making, and tours of the exhibition An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018.
Contemporaries members can RSVP online or call 612.375.7655.
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In 1987, a New York gallery contacted the Walker with an extraordinary offer: an opportunity to purchase 317 prints by Jasper Johns—everything the artist had produced up to that point. No public institution in the world owned a complete collection of graphic work by Johns—who, it turns out, was the unnamed seller behind the collection. As we open An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018, curator Joan Rothfuss looks at this extraordinary body of work by an American icon.