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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Brian Seibert The painter Alex Katz had an idea for a dance. He was at a park in Spain in the 1970s, and the way some young soldiers were flirting with young women reminded him of America in ...

Installation view of Alex Katz: Wedding Dress at the Portland Museum of Art (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) Displayed at the museum in the form of a regularly rotating selection, the trove ...

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 ...