Jack Whitten
artist
Art marketnews
African American artists sweep Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale in New York
With only two lots unsold, the auction house nets $362.6m in evening of avid bidding
Three to seenews
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From long-hidden sculptures to a Land Art pioneer’s early cogitations
Contemporary artnews
Baltimore museum sells blue-chip art to buy works by minority artists
Five works made around $18m (with fees) at auctions at Sotheby’s New York on 19 May, and two were bought for undisclosed sums in private sales
Exhibitionsnews
Jack Whitten: once mistaken for Gerhard Richter, now subject of major US survey shows
Curators share their stories about the late artist, whose sculptures are show at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Obituariesnews
US painter of cosmologies Jack Whitten dies age 78
Major survey of his sculptures opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art in April before travelling to the Metropolitan Museum