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The New York Times calls it:

"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."

This week, a new Jasper Johns show opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it seems like one of the must-see exhibitions of the
spring season, especially for anyone interested in the progress of American art over the last 50 years. It features more than 120 paintings, reliefs, drawings, prints, and sculptures, almost all of them meditations on the color gray. Many
of Johns' best know works will be on view, some of the artist's best-known works, such as Canvas, Gray Target, Jubilee, 0 through 9, No, Diver, and The Dutch Wives.

WHERE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Fifth Avenue at 81st Street
WHEN: Now through May 4, 2008. (Museum hours are listed on the web site; it is generally open every day but Monday, though it does open on some Mondays if they are Federal holidays)COST: The Met has a pay-what-you-wish policy.