Greek businessman George Lycurgus left an indelible mark on Hawaii and led Hawaii's Volcano House Hotel into the modern era ...

MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul.

Jack Whitten’s “NY Battle Ground” (1967). The artist once wrote, “How can anyone justify staying in the studio when your people are dying?” Purchase and gift of Sandra and Tony Tamer ...

The Appraisal: Collectors are waking up to Jack Whitten’s work, and chasing it at auction, especially the sought-after “Slab” and “Greek Alphabet” paintings. The dearth of available ...

Following the exhibition the Met mounted during its brief tenure in the Breuer Building in 2017, this new survey at MoMA offers an even more expansive and rigorous account of Jack Whitten’s ...

while Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian uncovers nuggets of wisdom in a reissue of Jack Whitten’s studio notebook. We also have a beach-read novel about a curator’s trip to Greece gone awry ...

Interviewed in his Queens, New York studio in October 2017, Jack Whitten reflects on his childhood ... ART21: And where did your interest in mosaics come from? WHITTEN: I have lived in Greece, on the ...

Jack Whitten, Liquid Space I, 1976 ... One room features several of his ‘Greek Alphabet’ paintings (1975–78). Whitten embarked on these abstractions after spending numerous summers in Greece, where he ...

Jack Whitten. NY Battle Ground ... and long residence in Greece, the chronology of his life is revealed. His political activism and participation in the Civil Rights Movement become evident ...

This Jack Whitten masterpiece reflects his respect for ... He would marry Mary Staikos, a woman of Greek descent, and for decades they spent the summers in Crete. The artist was fascinated by ...