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Unknown Numbers
FORTHCOMING: A large-format limited-edition luxury book about the series of 100 artworks known as “Unknown Numbers” and featuring texts by Jason Edward Kaufman. Each canvas consists of a black numeral set within a white circle at the center of an orange field. The canvases are identical except for the numbers themselves, which proceed in sequence from 0 to 99. Each artwork is unique. These are the first and only artworks produced by the artist, whose identity is not disclosed. The book will be published by Assouline in 2025.
De Kooning’s advice to Wayne Thiebaud
The Art Newspaper, Feb. 2023, p. 53; also appeared as “‘That’s not enough’: Willem de Kooning’s advice to a young Wayne Thiebaud,” The Art Newspaper Book Club Newsletter (online), Feb. 7, 2023.
Wayne Thiebaud: the Last Interview
In Wayne Thiebaud, ed. Ulf Küster, catalogue of the exhibition, “Wayne Thiebaud,” at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen|Basel, Switzerland, Jan. 29-May 21, 2023, pp. 139-148. [Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-5402-6]
Christo’s Visionary Enterprise [La visionaria empresa de Christo]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude en Uruguay [catalogue of exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry, Manantiales (Maldonado), Uruguay, Jan. 8-Apr. 8, 2022], MACA/Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2022, pp. 254-267 (English) and pp. 178-191 (Spanish).
Christo on his Life and Work (Christo, su vida y su trabajo) [Interview with the artist]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude en Uruguay [catalogue of exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry, Manantiales (Maldonado), Uruguay, Jan. 8-Apr. 8, 2022], MACA/Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2022, pp. 268-286 (English) and pp. 192-211 (Spanish).
Grand Openings [New Museums around the World]
Luxury Magazine, Fall/Winter 2021, pp. 180-189.
As American As Pie [Wayne Thiebaud interview]
Luxury Magazine, Spring/Summer 2021, pp. 190-201.
Finding the Light [Claude Monet profile]
Luxury Magazine, Fall-Winter 2020, pp. 190-201.
An American Life [Edward Hopper profile]
Luxury Magazine, Summer 2020, pp. 190-201.
Nature Study [Kirby Fredendall profile]
Luxury Magazine, Spring 2020, pp. 192-201.
Jason Edward Kaufman is a widely read arts journalist whose criticism and reporting have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications, including The Art Newspaper, for which he long served as Chief US Correspondent.
He has contributed to exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum, Beyeler Foundation, Morgan Library, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and MASSMOCA. His expertise in the history of art and museums has allowed him to provide strategic planning and other valuable consulting to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Beyeler Foundation, and other institutions, and to advise museum architects on their project designs.