There seems to be no limit to the creative mind of Ames resident Isaac Jarnagin. At 10, Jarnagin wanted to combine strategy and creativity to bring ideas to life for both himself and other people.

By M.H. Miller Photographs by Nicholas Calcott FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten, the subject of a major retrospective opening this month at New York’s ...

Can a painting also be a sculpture? Find out in “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the retrospective of the American abstractionist on view through Aug. 2 at the Museum of Modern Art. Following ...

Jack Whitten’s giant-sized mosaic-painting 9.11.01 (2006) is a famous painting that deserves to be still more famous. I could write a whole essay about any number of the works in Whitten’s ...