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James Wolcott

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Author of the memoir Lucking Out and the nonfiction collection Critical Mass, contributor to Air Mail, London Review of Books, and Liberties. Strictly Democrat.
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The Unstoppable Jasper Johns

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By James Wolcott
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The swoopy curves, pointy wings, and titanium sheen of Frank Gehry’s galactic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao make the perfect hangar for “Jasper Johns: Night Driver.” The retrospective, which opened yesterday, spans decades and includes hundreds of paintings, sculptures, drawings, stage designs, and assemblages from an American artist of Picasso-esque output.
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New to The New Criterion ?

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By Anatoly Grablevsky, Robert Erickson, James Wolcott
| The New Criterion
Frederic Edwin Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Week in review Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series.
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New to The New Criterion ?

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By Anatoly Grablevsky, Robert Erickson, James Wolcott
| The New Criterion
Isamu Noguchi, Shrine of Aphrodite for Martha Graham’s “Phaedra,” 1962, Paint, canvas, wood & metal, Noguchi Museum. Photo: Kevin Noble. © INFGM / ARS. On view in “Noguchi’s New York,” at the Noguchi Museum. The Critic’s Notebook Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series.
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