Public Symposium
Jasper Johns: The First Decade
April 28, 2007
East Building Auditorium
Held in conjunction with the exhibition
Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965
11:00 a.m.
Introduction
Jeffrey Weiss, curator and head of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
11:15 a.m.
"White Flag" in the Window: Jasper Johns, Matson Jones, and the Culture of Display
Richard Meyer, Katherine Stein Sachs CW ‘69 and Keith L. Sachs W ‘67 Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania
11:50 a.m.
The Gift of the Simple: Folklore in the Early Subjects of Jasper Johns
Thomas Crow, director, Getty Research Institute
12:30 p.m.
Break
1:30 p.m.
Jasper Johns: Ancient Aspects
Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art
2:05 p.m.
Mirroring and Molds: The Johns Theory of the Readymade
David Joselit, professor and chair, history of art, Yale University
2:40 p.m.
Break
2:50 p.m.
This Is a Device: The Artless Rhetoric of Jasper Johns
Harry Cooper, curator of modern art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
3:25 p.m.
Johns' World
Joachim Pissarro, curator, department of painting and sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
4:00 p.m.
Panel discussion
5:00 p.m.
Program ends