Art review: Jack Whitten: The Messenger
F or painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said Alex Greenberger in ArtNews. The same could be said of many visual ...
Jazzed About Abstraction: Jack Whitten’s Show Is a Peak MoMA Moment
Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium.
Maybe the most important American artist you’ve never heard of
I grew up in an American apartheid,” he said. “Every aspect of my life was dictated by race.” He not only lived through but ...
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In Atlanta, ‘Innervisions’ Conjures Black Abstraction as Ab-Ex’s Twin
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 ...
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Jack Whitten at MoMA, Paris Noir at the Pompidou, Arpita Singh at the Serpentine—podcast
The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. Ben Luke speaks to Michelle Kuo, the curator of the show, about the ...
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Maybe the most important American artist you've never heard of
To do this he had to invent a tool he called “the Developer ... I blinked and tried to adjust but found I was still seeing through Jack Whitten’s eyes. Jack Whitten: The Messenger Through ...