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 ...

Portrait of the portraitist -- The day of infamy -- Beginnings -- SoHo immersion -- The chosen ones: Close's models -- Photographs into paintings -- Back to the studio -- The power grid -- The magic ...

CLOSE: Well, the use of a grid as a scaling-up method goes back to ancient Egypt and was, of course, used in the Renaissance and used all along as a way to take a small drawing or a preparatory sketch ...

Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Chuck Close: Works on Paper 1975-2012, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, USA (solo) Don’t Be Shy, Don’t ...