Secret Postcards Nov 14, 2009
Many leading American artists have also contributed this year including Bill Viola, Lawrence Weiner, John Baldessari and Alex Katz. Potential buyers can view all the postcards at the Royal College of Art ahead of the 21 November sale. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
In a section devoted to pop art are fine things by Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Yayoi Kusama, and Andy Warhol. But nothing was quite as surprising as Jim Dine s 1962 jest Double Red Bathroom, a painting that comes replete with two protruding bathroom mirrors, a red toothbrush, and a roll of red toilet paper. (Boston Globe)
A tale of two collections Sep 18, 2009
Jewish artists in their collection include Alex Katz, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, and Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor Moshe Kupferman ... Works by Alex Katz include a self-portrait and a striking silkscreen of a spruce tree in vivid colors. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Sarit Chalamish Presents Drama. Queens. Drama: Michael Harris' First New York Solo Art Show, Featuring the Rise and Fall of Female Celebrities Sep 1, 2009
Australian-born Harris, who has been referred to by some as the young Alex Katz, is fascinated by this cultural, cyclical phenomenon and uses magazines' paper clips to recreate bold images of said celebrities on his canvases. He captures these women icons either as individuals or in a dynamic setting, mirroring into our own vulnerability, and our desire for perfection and destruction. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Accumulations as sculptures Jul 12, 2009
The work of contemporaries such as Alex Katz and Yvonne Jacquette - both of whom like night scenes - echo more clearly in Schneider's art than any 19th century visionaries of the American sublime. Her paintings anticipate viewers with an affinity for abstract painting. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Critic's picks - visual arts May 3, 2009
A sprightly overview of art in New York in the 1950s and '60s, complicating the standard roll call of major figures like de Kooning, Rauschenberg, and Guston with less obvious choices, including Alex Katz, Norman Bluhm, and Louise Bourgeois. Through July 19. (Boston Globe)
