Born in 1927 to Russian émigrés in Brooklyn, Alex Katz’s career roughly parallels the modern history of New York. A melting pot of Modernist experimentation, it was there that Katz carved a ...

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 ...

Alex Katz is considered one of the most prominent and prolific American artists of the past 50 years. Best known for his bright, billboard-sized portraits, Katz's work has been the subject of two ...

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.

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 ...