A School Board Admted It Spend A Gay Art Teacher For Sayg Jasper Johns Had A Male Partner

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A SCHOOL BOARD ADMTED IT SPEND A GAY ART TEACHER FOR SAYG JASPER JOHNS HAD A MALE PARTNER

Although an tensely private person, Johns has been part of a gay artistic i sce enterg to a relatnship wh artist Robert Rschenberg 1954, and workg closely wh choreographer Merce Cunngham and poser John Cage.

Through Rschenberg, Johns met a group of other gay artists, cludg Cy Twombly (Rschenberg’s former lover), sculptor Richard Lippold, choreographer Pl Taylor, poser Lou Harrison, and, most importantly, choreographer Merce Cunngham and poser John Cage, wh whom he would llaborate through much of their reers.

CELEBRATG GAY ARTIST JASPER JOHNS ON HIS 93RD BIRTHDAY

This sire for privacy has been pecially te of his homosexualy, datg back to the 1950s when public knowledge of what was then nsired sexual viancy uld sitrack a reer. However, as several crics have wrten, gay subtext is evint a number of his patgs, most notably  Target wh Plaster Casts (1955, David Geffen Collectn), which featur mold body parts, cludg a penis, set wh box (or closets) that uld be closed for ncealment.

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Celebratg Gay Artist Jasper Johns on His 93rd Birthday - The WOW Report.

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