Read our latest blog post on “Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight”, on view at the Whitney Museum, the first museum retrospective of the Cuban-born artist. “Carmen Herrera sold her first painting when she was 89 years old. Today, at 101, she still works almost every day in her studio. Even though recognition came to her late in life, to call her a late-bloomer would undermine a career spanning over seven decades, a career developed in Havana, Paris and New York and marked by minimalist and op-art sensibilities even before the movements bearing those labels were established. The exhibition Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, on view at the Whitney Museum until January 2nd of next year, focuses on a three-decade period of Herrera’s long trajectory, from 1948 to 1978, and features over fifty works that include paintings, sculptures and drawings. These works represent the steps in the evolution of her groundbreaking and signature style of abstraction, and bring much-warranted attention to an artist...