Jasper Johns: Gray at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

James Kalm accompanies viewers through an historic retrospective exhibition of paintings by Jasper Johns. Gray, perhaps the most ubiquitous and miss perceived of all colors is the theme of this major presentation. Johns has exploited the coloristic and metaphoric potentials of this tone since he emergence as one of America's most recognizable talents. Covering nearly fifty years of painting "Gray" was organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, and sponsored by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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[cochinealake]

I read in my computer ...Merropolitan Museum, in the head title, is my system acting funny or is a mistake?

[jameskalm]

Thanks for your editorial help. I gotta stop writing these intros at 3am

[samaytara]

tsk tsk mr. kalm. (im a gaurd at the met)

i really appreciate your videos, though. thank you.

[jameskalm]

samaytara,

Surely, you must be sympathetic to my desire to broadcast the glories of "The Greatest Museum in the World" to a larger audience, even if I have to seem like a jerk to get the video now and then?

[MrWowforever]

I guess millions of people and hundreds of museums and thousands of textbooks and endless collectors and countless students are all stupid for enjoying the work of Mr. Johns??? Who was painting flags and encaustic number paintings in the 20's??

[MrWowforever]

Johns style is his subject matter, applying abstract expressionist('40s & '50s) brush strokes to pop iconography ('60s). You didn't answer any of my questions and provided no artists names to back up your ideas. You blame it all on millionaire 'dudes'.(?) Do you think all the students (me included) who sincerely respect mr. johns are 'stupid'?

[Ecdysiast96]

ha, I can't believe you got away with video taping for that long at the Met! Good commentary.

[lovesGenet]

when they only talk about price it means they know nothing.No thinking, no theory , no thought.this guys at least showed up but he sasy nothing often like the artists when confronted with media.Why trell anyone.Those in academia know how to think about form&content if u havent done the work you dont get to have the fun of contemporary life!!!

[spd13062]

Excellent video...great commentary, thanks!

[gaelicwolf]

Thanks for making this; gutsy of you to brave the guards. I can't say I care for Johns' contemporary work, but his work in the 1950's and 60's was something special.

[claureic]

@MyRicardo1981 As everybody knows, it is the CIA's fault if NYC became the art capital of the world...Seriously, it is your comment that is pathetic, and not Johns's paintings. Art is no soccer game pitching Europe against the US...

[MrWowforever]

@MyRicardo1981 yay ! pudding !!

[MrWowforever]

'freight train'................keep waiting.

[billheartyface]

Dear Boy...Europe in the 80's and 90's?? You must be joking.  I'd love to know who you think could compete with Johns...especially from Europe. The clumsy brushwork of Baselitz? The Pop art rip-offs of Richter and Polke? The puerile symbolism of Kiefer? Who the fuck do you have? Europe, sadly, has been bereft of ideas for 50 years.

[MyRicardo1981]

I had seen personally these pictures, and I think they are pathetic!!! Totally stupid art works compared to those that are made during the 80's and 90's in Europe. But since he is American, you know, the best collectors come from America and they pay enourmous amounts of money to American Painters, so europeans stay behind in everything! USA rules!!!!