New York's Museum of Modern Art,
having made itself great again,
is readying a reception for the
flag of Jasper Johns (1954-55).
Advance publicity suggests that
the curators have entertained
themselves no end, with the de-
light of proposing new juxtapo-
sitions of the wittiest impli-
cations of the age. Now, it is
difficult to suppress a slight
anticipatory squeal of one's
own, at such innocent reshuf-
fling of familiar iconography,
at the very moment when the
playful American President is
outdoing himself with novel
rearrangements in the separa-
tion of powers by a similarly
coy curatorship. Readers, too,
should one have a flag to sus-
pend, or a President, are ad-
vised to extend an experiment-
al sense of play to their own
re-conceptions of order.
i Jeenah Moon, photography
The New York Times©
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