The 95-year-old is the subject of a new, seriously big retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York. What took so long? NEW YORK — Are the paintings of Alex Katz a guilty pleasure, or just a pleasure? ...

Venturing from its decades-long roots in New York, the work of renowned artist Alex Katz is making its way across the country in a touring exhibition that soon will be in La Jolla. “Alex Katz: Theater ...

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. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Alex Katz began painting more than 75 years ago, he ignored what was popular then, to pursue his passion: figurative art.

Few cities experience the seasons like New York. Whether frigid, temperate or ferociously hot, dealing with that interplay between quaint and downright apocalyptic is one of the hallmarks of being a ...

On “Alex Katz: Small Paintings” at the Whitney Museum of American Art; “Alex Katz: Large Paintings” at PaceWildenstein & “Alex Katz: The complete Woodcuts and Linocuts” at the Peter Blum Gallery. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alex Katz, who turned 98 last month, paints paeans to summer. There’s much more to his repertoire, of course. But anyone who has ...

Alex Katz, "Blue Umbrella 2" (1972), oil on linen, 96 inches x 144 inches (© 2022 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; photo courtesy private collection) When Vincent van ...

A native New Yorker who was born in 1927 and grew up in Queens, Mr. Katz began painting as a teenage student, made his mark as a sprightly realist in an age of abstraction, worked undaunted through ...

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 a ...

His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks — some fresh from the studio — and celebrated spiral. By Roberta Smith At first the prospect of an Alex Katz ...