He bought it from Jean-Christophe Castelli, son of Leo Castelli, Mr. Johns’s legendary dealer. The younger Mr. Castelli inherited the painting from his father, who died in 1999. This Jasper Johns 48-star “Flag” from 1958 has entered the private... Full Article at The New York Times

The high-profile sale, which is set to take place in New York, will include about 100 works, or close to 80% of the novelist's personal collection. Among the works scheduled to hit the auction block are masterpieces by Jasper Johns (who was a close... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

A 1961 Pablo Picasso painting titled Femme et Fillettes and Jasper Johns’s Stars and Stripes painting, Flag, are among the works collected by the late author Michael Crichton that are going up for auction. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Photo You might... Full Article at The National Newspaper

When artwork that once belonged to the late bestselling author Michael Crichton hits the auction block in May, the works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso and others will combine for one of the most high-profile art s Full Article at Los Angeles Times

Born in Newark, Ms. Kligman said she had wanted to live the artist’s life since reading a biography of Beethoven at 7. She Full Article at Boston Globe

Dodiya’s influences and imperatives in the two decades he has been working out of Mumbai. It is an amalgamation of many themes that have recurred in his art—Mahatma Gandhi, artist Bhupen Khakar whose pop-wit and irreverence Dodiya has always admired,... Full Article at livemint.com

Until the article I recently read, mannequins in their practical form held little interest for me; however mannequins in art have always attracted me, most likely due to my obsession with fashion coupled with my fascination with unsettling representat Full Article at Huffington Post

...partial list of portrait subjects included in the exhibition: John Cage, Zaha Hadid, Jasper Johns, Alberto Giacometti, Truman Capote (above), Gael Garcia Bernal, Pablo Picasso, Carson McCullers, Grace Kelly, Phillip Johnson, Jacques Cousteau, John Updike,... Full Article at Flavorwire

From the National Post... Harmon's latest book, The Map as Art, explores how the ancient practice of cartography is being co-opted by contemporary artists to explore different realities. With 350 `maps' produced by artists including Julian Schnabel,... Full Article at Town Hall

PRECEDING ALL that great talent was James McNeill Whistler, who began the modernist movement, and the show opens with a profile of his etchings. A new exhibit traces printmaking from the origins of the modernist movement Full Article at Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Thus O'Brien seems to span the ages, but ultimately resides in the present, attested to by the occasional inclusion of a target motif, a la Jasper Johns. Kenion, on the other hand, seeks no ties with Western art history. Her beautifully designed and... Full Article at Akron Beacon Journal

Studio slang that expressed effusive approval in the Abstract Expressionist 1950s, whether swaggering or sentimental, became literal subject matter for numerous artists in the 1960s. Jasper Johns was a leading practitioner. For instance, with tongue... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

I won! I suppose it's just that people are coming to realise that I've done some quite serious things over the past, you know, 50 or 60 years. That, and the fact that I've lived longer than all my peers. Joseph Beuys and John Latham are dead. Robert... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

The statue is on display in its own climate-controlled gallery on the second floor. A museum spokesman said that there are no plans to remove it from public display in the foreseeable future. (The Villa offers free admission but visitors are required... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

HAVANA, CUBA - The IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) and the SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior de España) opened February /5/ 2010 this co-production with the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain in Cuba and the Museo Full Article at Art Knowledge News

Crichton was the mega-selling thriller writer behind "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain" and the TV series "ER." He was also a private and passionate art collector who bought works by 20th-century masters including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and... Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

“We will show wonderful works by Picasso, Lichtenstein, Johns and Rauschenberg - artists whom Michael ranked as the greatest of our age.We are thrilled to be exhibiting an extremely rare example of Jasper Johns’ Flag, one of the most famous icons of... Full Article at Art Knowledge News

Michael Crichton wasn't just a prolific writer and the creator of "ER" he was also an avid art collector. Crichton, who died in 2008, had collected works from Picasso, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and others. Some of those works... Full Article at Luxist

Flag, by U.S. artist Jasper Johns, is one of four pieces from the collection of the late Michael Crichton set for auction in New York on May 11. (Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press) With files from The Associated Press One of Jasper Johns's iconic... Full Article at CBC News