JASPER JOHNS

Pleasure is something you receive from an artwork; beauty is a quality intrinsic to it. Art can be pleasurable to look at without being beautiful. I am moved to these thoughts by an unglamorous but very pleasurable exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum. “Jasper Johns: Light Bulb” looks at the role that a simple object, the incandescent light bulb, has played in the work of the artist, who is now 78.

New York Times
Dec 5 2008