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? ...
When Alex Katz began painting more than 75 years ago, he ignored what was popular then, to pursue his passion: figurative art. "Most people didn't like my work," he said. "It was figurative, and ...
THE DAILY PIC: Alex Katz's student works at Timothy Taylor – 'I wanted to paint what was in front of me.' THE DAILY PIC (#1816): You could say that this painting represents the very first hints that ...
On November 11 at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater, the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation will honor painter Alex Katz, ...
Alex Katz, who turned 98 last month, paints paeans to summer. There’s much more to his repertoire, of course. But anyone who has kept track of Katz’s production over the past seven decades will ...
The Red Smile, 1963, oil on canvas, 78 7/8 x 115 inches. (200.3 x 292.1 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and ...
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 ...
As one of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Brooklyn-based artist Alex Katz has been painting portraits for nearly 50 years, synthesizing a kind of color field abstraction with ...
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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 ...
The iconic New York figurative artist, who is creating a mural on the High Line opposite the new site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, also reflects on Fassbinder and jazz. By Ken Miller Jeff ...
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