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 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 longtime ...

The global art market may finally be catching up to the 91-year-old Alex Katz. Today heralded as one of Pop art’s precursors, Katz established himself in New York City in the 1950s with portraits and ...

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? ...

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 ...

Discovering Alex Katz’s work at London’s Saatchi Gallery in 1998 felt like a chance encounter. His painting “Blue Umbrella No. 2” seemed not to care that it was misplaced, far from its New York ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Katz admired a Mark di Suvero sculpture and gave it to the Brooklyn Museum. It now has pride of place in the museum’s 200th anniversary celebration. By Ted Loos Consider two artists, now both in ...

This artwork is located at artnet’s headquarters in New York. Message the Specialist to schedule a private viewing. Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his large-scale landscapes, ...

Dog at Ducktrap by Alex Katz features one of the artist’s recurring and distinctive subjects, his dog, a skye terrier named Sunny. Here, the endearing canine is shown sitting in a marsh, contently ...