Bob & Jasper: The Canvas Closet
Brad Gooch, whose highly readable book on writer Flannery O’Connor is about to come out, turns his attention to another kind of coming out, or lack of it: the relationship between painters Robert Rauschenberg (left) and Jasper Johns (right). Sample: “If Harvey Milk was hot-under-the-collar, heading west to sample the liberated Castro lifestyle, Rauschenberg, 82 — a mere five years older — was too-cool-for-school.”
