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 ...

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 ...

Alex Katz, born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American painter known for his large-scale, flat, and minimalist portraits and landscapes. A precursor to the Pop Art movement, Katz's work is ...

For the past seven decades, give or take, the 95-year-old painter Alex Katz has split his time between a house in Lincolnville and an apartment in New York while splitting his seemingly inexhaustible ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford have been awarded the National Medal of Arts, a designation for US artists and philanthropists given out by the government. The merit is decided by ...

The work of artist Alex Katz will be featured in an exhibition opening Sunday at the Butler Institute of American Art. “Collaborations with Poets” offers an intimate look at Alex Katz’s ...

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 ...

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 ...