“Jack Whitten: The Messenger” is on view at The Museum of Modern Art through August 2. From the late New York-based artist’s studio—a former firehouse, which he described as a “laboratory for acrylic paint,” largely untouched since his death in 2018—his daughter and wife joined MoMA for a conversation. Here, they explained how the collection of images and objects he lived with reflected who he was, and how it relates to upbringing in the segregated South during the Civil Rights movement. “Whitten transformed righteous anger into a kind of dazzling beauty,” said MoMA curator Michelle Kuo.