The American artist moved from the segregated South to the New York art world and beyond as he forged unique processes of ...

For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said Alex Greenberger in ArtNews. The same could be said of many visual artists, of course. But Whitten was “less interested in depicting light than ...

On the seventh floor of the Museum of Modern Art, there is a massive collection titled “Jack Whitten: The Messenger." ...

The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” a Museum of Modern Art retrospective opening Sunday (through Aug. 2). The show was organized by Michelle ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For half a century, Jack Whitten tore through an art world that pretended not to see him at all ...

Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.” Jack Whitten, “9.11.01” (2006), a 20-foot-long memorial to the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, an event that he ...

Felrath Hines, Aerial Landscape, 1957; Oil on jute. Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Gift of Dorothy Fisher In 1998, Jack Whitten wrote in his personal journals thirty-two objectives for his ...