Jack Whitten, the African American painter and sculptor who died Saturday at 78, was once given a tour of St. Catherine's Monastery, at Mount Sinai. His guide, a young monk, led him down into the ...

In the painter Jack Whitten’s Queens studio, shelves of paints, many of which he mixed himself, and, in the dark wooden box near the center, the artist’s ashes. Nicholas Calcott ...

A Jack Whitten retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art blew our critic away.

Titled “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the show encompasses some 180 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, from a 1963 art-school collage to a final painting from just before he died in 2018.

Jack Whitten, Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald and others are headlining New York’s top museum shows during the city’s peak art season.

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 ...

Jack Whitten's painting, currently at the MoMA, is one of the most powerful paintings of recent times. Yet it still contains much to unpack.

Jack Whitten, the African-American painter and sculptor who died Sunday at 78, was once given a tour of St. Catherine's Monastery, at Mount Sinai.

More than 175 career-spanning works by African American artist Jack Whitten will be spotlighted in a retrospective at New York's MoMA from March 23.

As Jack Whitten exhibition ‘Speedchaser’ opens at Hauser & Wirth, London, and before a major retrospective at MoMA opens next year, we explore the American artist's impact ...

The atmosphere is one of quiet negation and cool industrial polish. In this spare context, Jack Whitten’s “Greek Alphabet” paintings practically quiver and dance.