WHEN:
March 23 - August 2, 2025
For more information visit the MoMA website.
WHERE:
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“…the exhibition will explore the full range of Whitten’s innovative art over his nearly six-decade career, showing more than 175 works from the 1960s to the 2010s, including paintings, sculptures, rarely shown works on paper, and archival materials. Together, these works will reveal how Whitten overturned the tenets of modern art-making to become one of the most important artists of our time. Beginning his career during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Whitten was under great pressure to create directly representational art as a form of activism, yet he dared to invent new forms of abstraction and, in the process, transformed the relationship between art, memory, and society..."
