Magic Touch: Jasper Johns Show Dazzles at New Menil Drawing Institute

Phyllis Tuchman | ARTnews | 7th December 2018

Houston scores a double hit. A show of Jasper Johns drawings “dazzles. He captivates us with things we’ve known all our lives.” But that’s not all. The show inaugurates the Menil Drawing Institute, the first museum in the US specialized in contemporary drawing. Namechecking the renowned Vienna museum, one critic gushes “This week at the Menil, America gets a modern Albertina.”