Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould have repped for science, Jasper Johns for visual art, Amy Tan for novelists. But in a legacy of political relevance (and good humor) that wanes and waxes depending on the year (and collection of writers), Assange’s...

Bob Hope, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Steven Jay Gould, Steven Hawking, Werner Herzog. Really. It goes on and on. Consider just the "J" section, for instance, which includes Jeff Bezos. Jasper Johns, Johnny Carson, and...

16, 2012, 9:39 pm “The Simpsons” has a long respected history of celebrity guest-spots, having turned everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Julian Assange into yellow-skinone where Homer becomes a celebrated outsider artist after building a shoddy barbecue...

Marisol was born in 1930 in France to Venezuelan parents, and came to the United States in 1950, studying for three years with the legendary teacher Hans Hofmann before discovering Pre-Columbian and American folk art and switching from painting to...

The Marxes have gone global and paid more attention to the West Coast—from John McLaughlin to Mark Bradford, both represented with major works. (Above is Bradford’s 2007 collage Smite , set to become the Hammer’s second big Bradford.) There are multiple...

The sculpture is one of two identical pieces; the piece at Crystal Bridges did not belong to Crichton, said Elizabeth Weinman, registrar for the museum. Oldenburg’s sculpture builds on the museum’s collection of the beginnings of contemporary art, which...

"I thought that was very interesting considering it's one of the oldest archival mediums in existence," he said. There are other artists who use beeswax, including pop art artist Jasper Johns, but usually with other solvents like oils, pastels and...

Why didn’t they simply say, “No prints are allowed?” I wonder! Some of the greatest contributions to American Contemporary Art have come from the ranks of the artist/printmaker. Take, for example, the work of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Mauricio...

“There’s not an economic force behind it,” Kelly said. “A handful of people, like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, made money making prints,” but with a few exceptions, prints are unable to compete in an art market dominated by blockbuster pieces.

Despite exemplary works by Marsden Hartley, Jasper Johns and Robert Mapplethorpe, it is more sketchy overview than thorough examination and often errs on the side of mild-mannered caution. But it illuminates aspects of mainstream art that have long...

McDonell, Brian Williams, Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol invited lots of other media machers to the restaurant for a New York Giants Super Bowl pep rally luncheon. Funnily enough, the football paraphernalia plastered on the walls by the party planners...

McDonell, Brian Williams, Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol invited lots of other media machers to the restaurant for a New York Giants Super Bowl pep rally luncheon.Funnily enough, the football paraphernalia plastered on the walls by the party planners...

As a champion of paradox and perpetuator of “anti-art,” Duchamp eventually decided to leave the art world to pursue chess full-time, even collaborating with John Cage in a performance where they rigged chess pieces to produce sound. His influence can be...

To mark these anniversaries, the West End gallery is presenting the exhibition John Cage :-) A Centennial Celebration (With Friends) through April 20. The exhibition is overwhelming more than 100 works by Cage and 22 friends, including Marcel Duchamp,...

“This exhibition is very exciting to me, both as a printmaker and as an admirer of contemporary American Art,” says Andrew Saluti, assistant director of the SUArt Galleries and curator of the exhibition. “To see recent work from the likes of Jasper...

It was an era full of addictive graphics, imagery and materials. I also looked at artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. I’ve always loved how they take simple everyday objects and transform them into something visually captivating. I...

12) Like many events that are the first of their kind, this sampling of the roles of same-sex desire — and unconventional notions of masculinity and femininity — in over 100 years of American portraiture feels both overdue and a little behind the times.

Solway has said no one was more influential in helping to shape his personal life and professional career than Cage. The exhibit includes works by Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Jasper Johns, Alison Knowles, Yoko...

An exhibition of works by Cage including prints, drawings, multiples and scores. Also includes works by 22 other artists, including Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Nam June...