Jasper Johns

Art of America episode 3 takes Andrew Graham-Dixon from the neon blaze of Las Vegas to the wounded skyline of post-9/11 New York, asking one urgent question: what lies beneath the surface of the American Dream? The final part of his United States odyssey charges through six decades of contemporary American art, from Jasper Johns’s subversive White Flag and Andy Warhol’s soup cans to Jeff Koons’s studio and the burnt cityscapes of Matthew Day Jackson. Graham-Dixon opens in Las Vegas, the world’s largest, brightest, brashest neon work of art and a perfect symbol of America’s can-do optimism, an Emerald City […]