“Slice,” a work on view in new Jasper Johns exhibition at the Whitney, raises complex questions
SALISBURY, CONN. — The artist — not just any artist but perhaps America’s most famous living artist — wrote to the teenager this April. Jéan-Marc Togodgue, who grew up in the Republic of Cameroon in west-central Africa without running water or his own bed, asked the woman he calls Mom to read the personal letter.