Art My Chuck Close Problem When one of the world’s richest living artists orders you to stop making art, you do it. Or do you? That is what Chuck Close has done to me. In response, I have developed a ...

If you’ve ever been invited to an elegant dinner where every bite is a delight and each new course makes you hungry all over again, then you want to treat yourself to what amounts to a sumptuous feast ...

New York's Second Avenue Subway opened on January 1 after almost a century of planning, with new art installations by Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Vik Muniz, and Jean Shin. Sarah Sze, “Blueprint for a ...

Pace is mounting its first exhibition of work by the late artist Chuck Close, whom the gallery has represented since 1977. The show may answer the question of whether the art market, and the art world ...

A former dog walker living on Social Security benefits in Upper Manhattan, Mark Herman thought he had struck it rich when he was gifted an early canvas by Chuck Close, one of the innovators of late ...

All painting is magic: an alchemical transformation of raw materials into refined beauty, two dimensions into an illusionistic third, inanimate canvas object into emotional incendiary device. More so ...

As long as museums continue to elevate exploitative traditions of representing the body, the artists in this exhibition suggest the nude remains a potent site for critique, refusal, and redefinition.

Image: 46 x 34 in. (116.84 x 86.36 cm.) In the 1980s, Chuck Close initiated a new technique for creating portraits, which set aside his systematic execution and application of the grid: fingerprints.

Image: 23.4 x 19.5 in. (59.44 x 49.53 cm.) The present work by Chuck Close presents an intimate portrait of American artist Alex Katz rendered in Close’s signature grid-based style of layered squares ...