Join us for the opening of the exhibition Jasper Johns: Reversals. At 6 pm, scholars Carter Foster and Kevin Salatino will discuss Johns and his work for the annual Donna Perret Rosen Lecture. As always, we’ll also have live music, free art activities, and a cash bar.

• 5-8 pm: Art on the Spot
• 5:30–8:30 pm: Music by Josh Paxton
• 6:30 pm: Donna Peret Rosen Lecture: Carter Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Kevin Salatino, Hannah and Russel Kully Director of Art Collections at the The Huntington Library and Art Collection

About Carter Foster

In a museum career spanning nearly twenty-five years, Carter E. Foster has specialized in the history of drawing and the continuities of artistic practice from the Renaissance to the present, and has organized dozens of exhibitions covering this range. Most recently, he was on the team curators who developed the Whitney Museum’s inaugural display in its new building, America is Hard to See. An expert on Edward Hopper, he organized the 2013 exhibition Hopper Drawing and edited and co-authored its catalogue. He writes extensively on post-war and contemporary art. Prior to the Whitney, he held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

About Kevin Salatino

Kevin Salatino was appointed Director of the Art Collections at The Huntington in July, 2012. Prior to that, from 2009–2012, he was Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. From 2001–2009, he was Curator and Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and from 1991–2000 he was Curator of Graphic Arts at the Getty Research Institute. Salatino earned his AB from Columbia University and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at Middlebury College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured and published widely on subjects as diverse as fireworks (Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe, 1999, published in a revised French edition in 2015 as Art incendiaire), Fra Angelico (the subject of his dissertation), the erotic drawings of Henry Fuseli, the European Grand Tour, Goya, James Ensor, George Bellows, and Richard Pousette-Dart, among others. Recent publications include Edward Hopper’s Maine (2011), and William Wegman: Hello Nature (2012). In 2012, he delivered The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in the History of Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the subject of “Edward Hopper and the Burden of (Un)Certainty.”