Hide/Seek: Works by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg - National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of "Hide/Seek" and Chair of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY-Buffalo.
In Memory of My Feelings-Frank O'Hara / Jasper Johns (born 1930) / Oil on canvas with objects, 1961 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; partial gift of Apollo Plastics Corporation, courtesy of Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson
Ventriloquist / Jasper Johns (born 1930) / Encaustic on canvas, 1983 / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; museum purchase with funds provided by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund
Canto XIV / Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) / Offset lithograph (one of thirty-four), 1959-69 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; gift of Marcia Simon Weisman
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" was on view at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, from October 30 through February 13, 2011
For more on the exhibit, visit the exhibit website at: npg.si.edu/exhibit/hideseek .

[@KpxUrz5745]

For quite a few decades I have troubled myself to go see and think about both of these artists' works in depth. Long ago I came to the conclusion that Johns was the better artist of the two. I also concluded that neither of these artists is really very good, and that both got lucky to have found themselves at the right place at the time to have been accepted for their random squigglings. So to me, this rambling talk in this video is just more pointless psychobabble, and I've had quite enough already, thank you.

[@MrThistleFlower]

Great to see this, Jonathan!

[@sonnycorbi6889]

Mr. Katz "Thanks For Your Input" but I believe the viewing public can make up their own mind to what they are looking at - and every other word out of your mouth about "homosexual" this and that - Look we are not interested in your views on their sexual exploitations - Geeeeeeez! where do you people come from and why are there so many of you -

[@andersgudru3762]

The amount of homophobic blabber in the comments to this video - Jeeezuz!

[@Poemsapennyeach]

What....it stopped...no info... nothing...this is a fraud...

[@JeffersonDinedAlone]

How much goppletygoop can these types of people babble about crap?

[@dustbinfilms]

What is goppletygoop?