Jasper Johns

Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’s Painting and Drawing: A Dialogue
January 23, 2019

Roberta Bernstein examined selected works from The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns at the Menil Drawing Institute and discussed how they engage with related paintings. Bernstein also illustrated how Johns’s art blurs the boundaries between painting and drawing and presents factors important to decisions about where certain works reside vis-à-vis recently published Jasper Johns catalogue raisonné.

A Labour of Love: Creating the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné
November 11, 2018

Jasper Johns scholars Roberta Bernstein and Kate Ganz spoke in a dynamic conversation, co-hosted by Sotheby’s International Realty and the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. Bernstein is the author and director of the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture and co-curator of the Royal Academy’s current exhibition Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth,’ and Ganz is the senior editor and primary object examiner for the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s drawings (seven of which from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection will be offered at Sotheby’s on 16 November. As catalogue raisonné writers, Bernstein and Ganz are “unsung heroes of art history,” said Sotheby’s Chairman Lisa Dennison, who moderated the conversation and also discussed Johns’s unique process, innovation with materials and non-hierarchal approach to employing a variety of mediums.

“Jasper Johns: A Life’s Work” at The Brooklyn Public Library
April 26, 2018

How does the work of a significant living artist enter the canon and the archive? And how must the field of art become more inclusive when it comes to representing artistic legacies?

The Un-Private Collection: Roberta Bernstein, Joanne Heyler, and Ed Schad
September 23, 2017

As part of The Broad’s Un-Private Collection series, co-curator Roberta Bernstein spoke with host curators Joanne Heyler (Founding Director, The Broad) and Ed Schad (Associate Curator, The Broad) about her experience working on the catalogue raisonné and more broadly about Jasper Johns’s art.