Alex Katz & Joe Brainard: Flowers Journals

Alex Katz celebrates an old friendship, illustrating Brainard's 1970s journals with charcoal flower drawings

In this tender posthumous collaboration initiated by Alex Katz (born 1927), the artist embellishes journal entries by his old friend Joe Brainard (1941-94) with a new series of exquisite charcoal drawings of flowers (a popular motif in Brainard's own art). Katz and Brainard often collaborated with poets--particularly those of the New York School, such as Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman and...