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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...