4/1/2024 0 Comments Yau not even wrong![]() ![]() I recognized the things he used, but I knew that was just the beginning. ![]() I also began reading everything I could about Johns’s work. ![]() I had seen quite a lot of contemporary art by the time I moved here, but the Whitney show exploded everything that I thought I knew about art, and I went back to it over and over. In 1969, when I was a student at Bard, I started going to New York, mostly to SoHo and 57th street, but I didn’t see Johns’s work then. In Boston in the early 1970s, where I lived before moving to New York in 1975, the only contemporary art you could see was Color Field Painting. John Yau: The first time I saw his work was when he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1977. Phong Bui (Rail): When did you first see or encounter Johns’s work and how did it have an impact on you? Was it immediate or rather a prolonged meditation over time? ![]()
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