1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Jack Whitten: The Messenger

MoMA, 2025-04-29

Our first museum trip of the holiday, we head straight to the top floor for the MoMA’s retrospective on Jack Whitten. A well-staged exhibition in which I find a lot to like whilst some of it does leave me cold. The more cosmic works, taking abstract pieces, tiling them, and reassembling them in different configurations really worked for me, especially seeing how that evolved over time and remained relevant even through to an iOS influence. Other pieces do less for me, but it’s well organised and Alasdair takes to it a lot more, so time well spent.