In the early 1970s, US artist Jack Whitten underwent a dramatic change in his practice. Moving away from the gestural approach of Abstract Expressionism, Whitten instead developed his own highly ...

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

For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said Alex Greenberger in ArtNews. The same could be said of many visual ...

But that thought is too depressing. The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” a Museum of Modern Art retrospective opening Sunday (through Aug. 2).

Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.” Jack Whitten, “9.11.01” (2006), a 20-foot-long memorial to the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, an event that he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...