Well-known for his female portraits, landscapes, as well as outdoor and night scenes, Katz always paints with simplicity, creating clearly outlined forms ...

After more than eight decades of embracing flat,figurative painting, artist Alex Katz is getting the recognition he deserves. US artist Alex Katz poses in 2016 by "Gold and Black 2" during the ...

By Roberta Smith At first the prospect of an Alex Katz retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum did not rest easy on my mind. Katz’s paintings include billboard-size heads and towering canvases of ...

The credits have been corrected. NEW YORK — It took me years to come around to Alex Katz. I don’t know what my problem was. I had an inherited idea, I suppose, of what sorts of things should ...

American figurative painter Alex Katz has developed an artistic style that is immediately recognizable. Whether seeing his work from across an art fair, through a gallery window, or on the page of ...

Alex Katz admired a Mark di Suvero sculpture and gave it to the Brooklyn Museum. It now has pride of place in the museum’s 200th anniversary celebration. By Ted Loos Consider two artists ...

What took so long? NEW YORK — Are the paintings of Alex Katz a guilty pleasure, or just a pleasure? “Gathering,” a newly opened career survey at the Guggenheim in New York of the 95-year old ...

The artist is Alex Katz, whose portraits, with simple yet vibrant planes of color, have made him instantly recognizable. The theme is the four seasons, a perennial subject tackled by everyone from ...

Stephanie Sinclair The cavernous lobby of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is jammed with people, but it is impossible to miss Alex Katz. The artist famous for his bright figurative ...

The idea might pertain to the contemporary painter Alex Katz, who for nearly eight decades has centered his work around a small coterie of friends and family, but who has long enjoyed widespread ...

Just ask Alex Katz, the beloved SoHo-based artist whose painted the faces and landscapes he’s observed in-and-around his community since the 1950s. Just uptown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ...