EventsThe New Social Environment#428

Mind/Mirror: Jasper Johns

Featuring Carlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, and Richard Shiff

Friday, November 12, 2021 3 p.m. Eastern / 12 p.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Curators Scott Rothkopf and Carlos Basualdo join Rail Consulting Editor Richard Shiff for a conversation on the simultaneous Jasper Johns exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art. We conclude with a poetry reading by Cole Swensen.

In this Talk

Check out Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, up until February 13 →

Scott Rothkopf

Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Scott Rothkopf served on the curatorial team responsible for the Whitney’s inaugural collection display America Is Hard to See. Rothkopf served as Senior Editor of Artforum International from 2004 through 2009, where he was a frequent contributor of feature reviews and essays. Rothkopf has published widely on the work of contemporary artists, and served as editor of Yourself in the World (2011), the collected writings and interviews of Glenn Ligon. Rothkopf is a member of the board of trustees of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University.

Richard Shiff

Portrait by Phong H. Bui

Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art and theory. His recent books include Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Work of Donald Judd (2020), Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1969-2019 (2020), Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul (2022), and Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists (2023). He has published several essays on the art of Jasper Johns.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨