Art review: Jack Whitten: The Messenger

Art review: Jack Whitten: The Messenger

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 light than in embodying it in paint,” and that ambition helped make the Black Alabama native “one of the great painters of the past century.” A posthumous retrospective now hanging at MoMA gives the world a chance to finally appreciate Whitten’s achievements, a…