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“I can build anything I want to build. I’m not a narrative painter. I don’t do the idea of the painting being the illustration of an idea. I don’t do that. It’s all about the materiality of the paint.” —Jack Whitten

Artist Jack Whitten passed away just about a year ago, on January 20, 2018 (b. December 5, 1939). Relentlessly inventive in his methods of creating, and driven by experimentation, Whitten was a beloved artist’s artist. Although plagued with self-doubt he never stopped pushing materiality and believing in the power of the process of painting. In 2017, Art21 had the good fortune to film him at work on what was to be his final painting. In this film, Whitten works away on Quantum Wall, VIII (For Arshile Gorky, My First Love In Painting) (2017) – which later went on display at a special memorial exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York – while musing about painting, his life, and career.

Museums

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MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

5:24

MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

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MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

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MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

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MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

5:24

GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

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GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

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GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

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GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

1:53

VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

3:32

STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

5:02

STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

10:34

STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

3:00

STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

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PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

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LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

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COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

58:08

PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

22:57

LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

3:39

MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

15:35

MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

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MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

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MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

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MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time