Yale University Press is publishing the catalogue for the recently opened Jasper Johns retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Jasper Johns: Gray.” New York Times art critic Roberta Smith praises the show in her review, calling it “moody, opulent and eloquent.” She says that “scores of museum exhibitions have visited and revisited Mr. Johns’s prolific and complex career…. [but “Jasper Johns: Gray”] is among the best.”

She goes on to compliment the “supremely clear account of Mr. Johns’s maturation from brilliant, methodical young artist to a deeper, more lyrical, less predictable one.” Smith ends by saying that “this is a marvelous show, a shadow retrospective of a career within a career. It amplifies gray into a color spectrum all its own. And it illuminates 50 years of a life saved by, and lived for, the incessant pursuit of art.”

To read the entire article, click here. For more information about the show, which runs through May 4th, click here.