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His portraits betray an obsession with style and surface. How did Alex Katz become one of the most influential painters alive? Read more…

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Simply Charly took first place “by a landslide” for its caricature of Salvador Dalí on Wittygraphy, an online community to discover, share, and promote the art of caricature from all over the world. Learn more…

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Caricature works wonders at skewering puffed-up demigods, moguls and celebrities by ripping off their false facades. For artists it is both a vent for frustration and a tool of dissent, but being good at it is never easy. Just getting a good likeness is hard enough; making it into a truly smart distortion takes a master [...]

Tributes to David Levine, who died on Tuesday at 83, have been mulling over his place among today’s cartoonists and caricaturists. Fair enough. But his genius was really that he wasn’t like anybody else. Read more…

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David Levine, whose macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates were the visual trademark of The New York Review of Books for nearly half a century, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 83 and lived in Brooklyn. Read more…

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The man who was not only the most famous and prolific surrealist but claimed to embody surrealism itself, Salvador Dalí was as known for his flamboyance and eccentricity as for his vast and compelling body of work. In his cultivation of an artistic and bizarre image, he contributed as much to the idea of “the [...]

Artists’ letters, often literary treasures in their own right, can provide compelling windows into the private struggles, public triumphs and towering ambitions that shaped their works and lives. The evocative and revealing correspondence of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), excerpted as early as 1893, has long fed a fascination with the artist’s impassioned [...]