When considering the Stars and Stripes as art, it’s hard not to think immediately of Jasper Johns. His 1954–55 painting Flag, now housed at the Museum of Modern Art, is a remarkable rendering of the 48-starred Old Glory, created using encaustic, oil paint, and an assemblage of newspaper clippings. This was the first of over 40 U.S. flag paintings created by Johns. But he isn’t the only artist to make the flag a subject. Artists like Faith Ringgold and David Hammons responded to moments of cultural upheaval in America—the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement—by reimagining the American flag in different colors, or in a different form, or with a different subtext. Paula Cooper Gallery is showing a variety of these creations from artists such as Johns, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and others. —Jack Sullivan