Mind/Mirror: Jasper Johns

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.

Curator Carlos Basualdo is Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among the exhibitions that he has organized at the Museum are: Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, which represented the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale; a survey exhibition of Michelangelo Pistoletto in 2010, which was a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and MAXXI; Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp (with Erica F. Battle); and Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection.

The Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, Richard Shiff directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art and theory. His publications include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (1984), Critical Terms for Art History (co edited, 1996, 2003), Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné (co authored, 2004), Doubt (2008), Between Sense and de Kooning (2011), Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954–1962 (2014), and Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Work of Donald Judd (2020).