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 ...

More than 65 contemporary art galleries from around the world will offer innovative presentations, representing over 25 diverse countries. Captivating platforms and thoughtful programming unfolds for ...

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 ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. Alex Katz is one of those polarizing artists people either love or hate. While I have never been possessed by either extreme with regard to his work ...

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 ...

Among the many insights on our podcast A brush with… Alex Katz is how important poetry has been to the US painter’s art. Poets of the New York School like James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara ...

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 ...

WATERVILLE, Maine — What to make of Alex Katz, the great misfit painter lost between the various houses of American art lo these past seven-plus decades? Very soon, the world can decide for itself.

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 ...