American painter Jasper Johns shook up the art world by reconceptualizing common icons like targets, numbers, and letters—and it all began in 1954 with Flag. Johns—who was born in Georgia in ...

This past year, there has been a surfeit of so-called recontextualized patriotism, brightened and Blacked up, made sexy, both ...

The Pride flag was first displayed in 1978 to be a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community. It is celebrated around the world and a widely recognised symbol of inclusivity and identity ...

The complete set of five lead reliefs with polystyrene and wood backing, one with an inset mirror, one with rag paper hand-painted in oil by the artist, and one with tin leaf and gold plating ...

The resulting regular rhythm suggests a space that could stretch on infinitely. Three Flags, Jasper Johns, 1958, encaustic on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA / Bridgeman ...

Chess, Parcheesi and Chinese checkers, Monopoly and Chutes and Ladders – the many manifestations of the gameboard are the focus of this exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York (13 ...

But it should give us pause. When we make sweeping statements about the flag and the “American values” it represents, we no longer mean the old latitudinarian civic Protestantism of the 19th ...

There is a voluminous catalog of Damir's works on the chair, with one of his most celebrated works on the cover, the United States of Siberia flag. This work pays homage to Jasper Johns' Flag.

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

First, at the Whitey Museum of American Art, entitled “Foirades / Fizzles,” which ran for two months in 1977, and ten years later at the Wright Art Gallery at UCLA, entitled “Foirades / Fizzles: Echo ...

The largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, Jasper is wild in every sense of the word. Its landscape covers an expansive region of rugged backcountry trails and mountainous terrain ...

For Christopher Benjamin, it all began with a couple of discarded American flags, tossed into a container at a landfill in St ...