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 ...

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 ...

Throughout Alex Katz’s seven-decade career, fashion has been a preoccupation. “It’s like you say, ‘yes, yes, no’ to everything that comes in front of you,” the 96-year-old artist tells ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...