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

But I’d like to end on a self-portrait. One that reminds me of the Jack Whitten I was lucky enough to briefly talk with a few times. My first art review was of his survey Jack Whitten ...

For painter Jack Whitten ... But Whitten was “less interested in depicting light than in embodying it in paint,” and that ambition helped make the Black Alabama native “one of the ...

It also misattributed Katy Siegel's quotation about the injustices Whitten faced to Kelly Baum and rendered the title of the exhibit incorrectly. It is "Odyssey: Jack ... art museums on only one ...

The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten ... Museum of Art acquired one of these works in 1975 and another came into MoMA’s collection in 1978. But Whitten ...

Abstract artist Jack Whitten, one of this year’s honorary degree recipients at Brandeis, will sit down with Rose Art Museum director Chris Bedford and curator-at-large Katy Siegel for an engaging talk ...

In the early 1970s, US artist ... to Whitten as 'a voracious thinker and maker'. What about his wide range of interests inspired this technical and conceptual switch in practice? Zoe Whitley: This is ...

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. That’s striking because ...

“Jack Whitten is still making work that looks like no one else’s, which is saying something, given the flood of abstract painting in New York in the past few years. “He invented new forms of ...