Most of us won’t have the opportunity to wander through a museum with one of the world’s most popular living painters. But a new book offers the next best thing. Artist Alex Katz, the 91-year-old ...

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 ...

It’s a brisk winter morning in SoHo, when elevator doors to the studio of legendary contemporary painter Alex Katz pry open. Ada Katz, the figure most often depicted in his large-scale abstract ...

Alex Katz’s history with Andy Warhol goes all the way back to 1949, when both artists were ensconced in New York, but the real turning point in their relationship came in 1959. That was the year Katz, ...

“I’ve seen enough art fairs,” Alex Katz declared near the end of the night on Wednesday. “They’re not particularly interesting. The art is reduced to commodity, so it’s really depressing and really ...

Katz once said that he “wanted to make paintings you could hang up in Times Square,” and I think, unfortunately for him, he may very well have succeeded. “Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum ...

The artist has had an astonishingly long career. Now 95, he is preparing for another major retrospective. Alex Katz, photographed in his New York City studio on June 16, 2022. The artist, who has been ...

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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It’s a brisk winter morning in SoHo, when elevator doors to the studio of legendary contemporary painter Alex Katz pry open. Ada Katz, the figure most often depicted in his large-scale abstract ...