{"id":1875433,"date":"2026-04-09T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1875433"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:00:28","slug":"jasper-johns-marks-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1875433","title":{"rendered":"Jasper Johns Marks Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Jasper Johns Marks Time<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">John Yau takes on the art world giant, the man behind an archive of censored mass media, Wifredo Lam in New York, and more Epstein art world ties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-04-09\">April 9, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>John Yau once remarked to Jasper Johns that the materials he uses \u2014\u00a0newsprint, hot wax, bedsheets \u2014\u00a0must be a conservator\u2019s nightmare. \u201cYes,\u201d Johns responded. \u201cIt\u2019s falling apart, just like me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Timed to an exhibition at Gagosian focusing on his work from the 1970s, Yau meditates on the ironic, decisive, and groundbreaking work of this giant of American art in a must-read piece today. For all that Johns accomplished, Yau writes \u2014\u00a0and that\u2019s a <em>lot<\/em> \u2014\u00a0his love for art and other artists remains. Nothing stays in time, his work acknowledges, but what a gorgeous meantime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also today, Naib Mian tells us about the man behind Khajistan \u2014\u00a0an Instagram compendium of cheeky visuals and found photos, including feet, showgirls, film posters, and much, much more, that\u2019s actually an expansive archive of censored and overlooked media from South Asia to North Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the news, the Hispanic Society in New York just acquired a rare Wifredo Lam painting that \u201cfell through the cracks of scholarship,\u201d the museum director said. In news that might not be news, the trustees of a renowned West Coast artist residency \u2014\u00a0including the nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014\u00a0visited Epstein\u2019s Island. And in old news, did you know dice might be 6,000 years older than we previously thought? All the above, and more, below. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/khajistan-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Saad Khan at home in Queens (photo Omar El Keys, all images courtesy Saad Khan)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"saad-khan-archives-the-detritus-of-censored-culture\">Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture<\/h3>\n<p>Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan. | Naib Mian<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/033125_FineArtsBFAPaintingThesisExhibition_MP-22.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school\u2019s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/N11728_DFP59_T3_02_A-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Wifredo Lam, \u201cPortrait of a Boy\u201d (1927) (image courtesy the Hispanic Society Museum and Library)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A rarely seen portrait from Wifredo Lam\u2019s early career has landed in the Hispanic Society Museum and Library\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>collection.<\/li>\n<li>New research published in\u00a0<em>American Antiquity\u00a0<\/em>posits that the first dice appeared more than 12,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed.<\/li>\n<li>Two board members of the esteemed Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California visited Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Little Saint James in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Catch Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s \u201cTriumphal Arch,\u201d one of the largest prints ever produced,\u00a0at the New York Public Library before it goes into storage this fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/JJOHN_PORTRAIT_1991_001-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Jasper Johns in his studio (c. 1976\u201380) (\u00a9 1991 Hans Namuth Estate; photo Hans Namuth, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"jasper-johns-keeps-looking\">Jasper Johns Keeps Looking<\/h3>\n<p>He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time. | John Yau <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"in-memoriam\">In Memoriam<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/P075116_ADKX-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Matthias Oppersdorff photo of Nathan Farb standing in a river beside a large-format camera on a tripod in Keene, New York (photo courtesy the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-nathan-farb-thomas-zipp-and-christine-ruiz-picasso\">Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso M\u00e1laga.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Vicki Meek on Aruna D\u2019Souza\u2019s\u00a0\u201cUnlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">As always, Aruna D\u2019Souza writes with clarity and specificity about the housing crisis artists in NYC face. It\u2019s a problem that exists for artists living in most urban cities in this country. Real estate developers have monopolized the housing market for decades, but today we are finally seeing gentrification affect communities other than low income communities so maybe now we\u2019ll see some serious conversation about this problem.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"icymi\">ICYMI<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/wifredi-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Wifredo Lam, \u201cLa Jungla\u201d (1942\u201343), oil and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas (photo Clara Maria Apostolatos\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"wifredo-lam-no-longer-waits-by-the-coatroom\">Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom<\/h3>\n<p>An overdue MoMA show reminds us that Lam pursued his own dialogue with African and Afro-diasporic visual cultures, even as the Parisian avant-garde exoticized his heritage. | Clara Maria Apostolatos<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Jasper Johns Marks Time<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">John Yau takes on the art world giant, the man behind an archive of censored mass media, Wifredo Lam in New York, and more Epstein art world ties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-04-09\">April 9, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>John Yau once remarked to Jasper Johns that the materials he uses \u2014\u00a0newsprint, hot wax, bedsheets \u2014\u00a0must be a conservator\u2019s nightmare. \u201cYes,\u201d Johns responded. \u201cIt\u2019s falling apart, just like me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Timed to an exhibition at Gagosian focusing on his work from the 1970s, Yau meditates on the ironic, decisive, and groundbreaking work of this giant of American art in a must-read piece today. For all that Johns accomplished, Yau writes \u2014\u00a0and that\u2019s a <em>lot<\/em> \u2014\u00a0his love for art and other artists remains. Nothing stays in time, his work acknowledges, but what a gorgeous meantime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also today, Naib Mian tells us about the man behind Khajistan \u2014\u00a0an Instagram compendium of cheeky visuals and found photos, including feet, showgirls, film posters, and much, much more, that\u2019s actually an expansive archive of censored and overlooked media from South Asia to North Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the news, the Hispanic Society in New York just acquired a rare Wifredo Lam painting that \u201cfell through the cracks of scholarship,\u201d the museum director said. In news that might not be news, the trustees of a renowned West Coast artist residency \u2014\u00a0including the nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014\u00a0visited Epstein\u2019s Island. And in old news, did you know dice might be 6,000 years older than we previously thought? All the above, and more, below. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/khajistan-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Saad Khan at home in Queens (photo Omar El Keys, all images courtesy Saad Khan)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"saad-khan-archives-the-detritus-of-censored-culture\">Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture<\/h3>\n<p>Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan. | Naib Mian<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/033125_FineArtsBFAPaintingThesisExhibition_MP-22.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school\u2019s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/N11728_DFP59_T3_02_A-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Wifredo Lam, \u201cPortrait of a Boy\u201d (1927) (image courtesy the Hispanic Society Museum and Library)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A rarely seen portrait from Wifredo Lam\u2019s early career has landed in the Hispanic Society Museum and Library\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>collection.<\/li>\n<li>New research published in\u00a0<em>American Antiquity\u00a0<\/em>posits that the first dice appeared more than 12,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed.<\/li>\n<li>Two board members of the esteemed Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California visited Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Little Saint James in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Catch Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s \u201cTriumphal Arch,\u201d one of the largest prints ever produced,\u00a0at the New York Public Library before it goes into storage this fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/JJOHN_PORTRAIT_1991_001-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Jasper Johns in his studio (c. 1976\u201380) (\u00a9 1991 Hans Namuth Estate; photo Hans Namuth, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"jasper-johns-keeps-looking\">Jasper Johns Keeps Looking<\/h3>\n<p>He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time. | John Yau <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"in-memoriam\">In Memoriam<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/P075116_ADKX-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Matthias Oppersdorff photo of Nathan Farb standing in a river beside a large-format camera on a tripod in Keene, New York (photo courtesy the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-nathan-farb-thomas-zipp-and-christine-ruiz-picasso\">Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso M\u00e1laga.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Vicki Meek on Aruna D\u2019Souza\u2019s\u00a0\u201cUnlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">As always, Aruna D\u2019Souza writes with clarity and specificity about the housing crisis artists in NYC face. It\u2019s a problem that exists for artists living in most urban cities in this country. Real estate developers have monopolized the housing market for decades, but today we are finally seeing gentrification affect communities other than low income communities so maybe now we\u2019ll see some serious conversation about this problem.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"icymi\">ICYMI<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/wifredi-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Wifredo Lam, \u201cLa Jungla\u201d (1942\u201343), oil and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas (photo Clara Maria Apostolatos\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"wifredo-lam-no-longer-waits-by-the-coatroom\">Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom<\/h3>\n<p>An overdue MoMA show reminds us that Lam pursued his own dialogue with African and Afro-diasporic visual cultures, even as the Parisian avant-garde exoticized his heritage. | Clara Maria Apostolatos<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>John Yau once remarked to Jasper Johns that the materials he uses \u2014\u00a0newsprint, hot wax, bedsheets \u2014\u00a0must be a conservator\u2019s nightmare. \u201cYes,\u201d Johns responded. \u201cIt\u2019s falling apart, just like me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Timed to an exhibition at Gagosian focusing on his work from the 1970s, Yau meditates on the ironic, decisive, and groundbreaking work of this giant of American art in a must-read piece today. For all that Johns accomplished, Yau writes \u2014\u00a0and that\u2019s a <em>lot<\/em> \u2014\u00a0his love for art and other artists remains. Nothing stays in time, his work acknowledges, but what a gorgeous meantime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also today, Naib Mian tells us about the man behind Khajistan \u2014\u00a0an Instagram compendium of cheeky visuals and found photos, including feet, showgirls, film posters, and much, much more, that\u2019s actually an expansive archive of censored and overlooked media from South Asia to North Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the news, the Hispanic Society in New York just acquired a rare Wifredo Lam painting that \u201cfell through the cracks of scholarship,\u201d the museum director said. In news that might not be news, the trustees of a renowned West Coast artist residency \u2014\u00a0including the nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014\u00a0visited Epstein\u2019s Island. And in old news, did you know dice might be 6,000 years older than we previously thought? All the above, and more, below. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/khajistan-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Saad Khan at home in Queens (photo Omar El Keys, all images courtesy Saad Khan)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"saad-khan-archives-the-detritus-of-censored-culture\">Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture<\/h3>\n<p>Since 2019, the New York-based archivist has cultivated a digital and physical menagerie of censored mass media spanning South Asia to the Maghreb known as Khajistan. | Naib Mian<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/033125_FineArtsBFAPaintingThesisExhibition_MP-22.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school\u2019s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/N11728_DFP59_T3_02_A-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Wifredo Lam, \u201cPortrait of a Boy\u201d (1927) (image courtesy the Hispanic Society Museum and Library)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A rarely seen portrait from Wifredo Lam\u2019s early career has landed in the Hispanic Society Museum and Library\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>collection.<\/li>\n<li>New research published in\u00a0<em>American Antiquity\u00a0<\/em>posits that the first dice appeared more than 12,000 years ago, much earlier than previously believed.<\/li>\n<li>Two board members of the esteemed Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California visited Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Little Saint James in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Catch Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s \u201cTriumphal Arch,\u201d one of the largest prints ever produced,\u00a0at the New York Public Library before it goes into storage this fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-our-critics\">From Our Critics<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/JJOHN_PORTRAIT_1991_001-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Jasper Johns in his studio (c. 1976\u201380) (\u00a9 1991 Hans Namuth Estate; photo Hans Namuth, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"jasper-johns-keeps-looking\">Jasper Johns Keeps Looking<\/h3>\n<p>He has never lost his love for art and artists, while recognizing that nothing stays in time. | John Yau <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"in-memoriam\">In Memoriam<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/P075116_ADKX-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Matthias Oppersdorff photo of Nathan Farb standing in a river beside a large-format camera on a tripod in Keene, New York (photo courtesy the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-nathan-farb-thomas-zipp-and-christine-ruiz-picasso\">Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor an intrepid photographer, a punk German artist, and the founder of the Museo Picasso M\u00e1laga.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Vicki Meek on Aruna D\u2019Souza\u2019s\u00a0\u201cUnlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">As always, Aruna D\u2019Souza writes with clarity and specificity about the housing crisis artists in NYC face. It\u2019s a problem that exists for artists living in most urban cities in this country. Real estate developers have monopolized the housing market for decades, but today we are finally seeing gentrification affect communities other than low income communities so maybe now we\u2019ll see some serious conversation about this problem.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"icymi\">ICYMI<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/04\/wifredi-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Wifredo Lam, \u201cLa Jungla\u201d (1942\u201343), oil and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas (photo Clara Maria Apostolatos\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"wifredo-lam-no-longer-waits-by-the-coatroom\">Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom<\/h3>\n<p>An overdue MoMA show reminds us that Lam pursued his own dialogue with African and Afro-diasporic visual cultures, even as the Parisian avant-garde exoticized his heritage. | Clara Maria Apostolatos<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/04\/41_Angel-Applicant-Resize-to_-Facebook_Instagram---3000px-W--72dpi--jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The first US museum exhibition to focus on the artist\u2019s late work, produced in response to the fascism of the 1930s. On view at the Jewish Museum through July 26, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Jewish Museum<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-9.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Marathons in Painting and Drawing at the New York Studio School\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Summer Marathons in Painting and Drawing at the New York Studio School<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Join an immersive, two-week session and transform your studio practice. Online or in-person.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">New York Studio School<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/033125_FineArtsBFAPaintingThesisExhibition_MP-22.jpg\" alt=\"Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school\u2019s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Pratt Institute<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/roselynnsstudiohyperallergic-1-.JPG\" alt=\"NYU Steinhardt Presents 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">NYU Steinhardt Presents 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">Part I: April 1\u201318, Part II: May 6\u201323. On view at 80WSE Gallery in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village. <\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">NYU Steinhardt<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/jasper-johns-marks-time\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Jasper Johns Marks Time John Yau takes on the art world giant, the man behind an archive of censored mass media, Wifredo Lam in New York, and more Epstein art world ties. 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