Last Chance

Jasper Johns: Numbers: Starting around 1955, and accelerating the pace around 1960, Jasper Johns created an increasingly elaborate group of paintings, reliefs and works on paper that had numbers as their subject. Numbers -- like the flags, maps, targets and alphabets he’s also known for -- are at the center of the conceptual revolution in late 20th century art that Johns was instrumental in launching. Johns’ paintings, drawings and prints shade the difference between abstraction and the figure, objects and their depiction. They articulate instead a spellbinding zone, where anxious beauty is the order of the day.

Ends Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. (323) 857-6000.