The force of this unpredictability is immediate: next to the entrance of the first gallery are Whitten’s ‘grey paintings’ ...

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

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

This exhibition at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum reframes the history of American abstraction by presenting Black artists as originators instead of outliers.

For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light ... At MoMA, visitors will see “astonishing” sculptures Whitten created during his summers in Crete as well as plenty of evidence that ...

This summer, the South London Gallery (SLG) in Peckham Road will present a new site-specific sculpture by American artist ...

Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times Supported by By Holland Cotter “I’m a product of American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art ...

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 ...

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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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 ...