Artist Will Cotton Reveals How He and Katy Perry Played an Elaborate Game of Candy Land Artist Will Cotton’s painting Cupcake Katy goes on view at the National Portrait Galley to welcome the pop ...

In early 2010, the painter Will Cotton, whose new exhibit is at the Mary Boone Gallery's Fifth Avenue location through June 30, received an email from the pop star Katy Perry that would determine ...

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We were sitting in the Core Club on 55th Street, where Mr. Cotton’s portrait of Katy Perry, Cupcake Katy, is on public view in the lobby. Mr.

Will Cotton said working with Katy Perry on ‘Teenage Dream’ and ‘California Gurls’ changed his life. In 2011, Cotton told The Daily Beast why he painted Perry.

Katy Perry taking a selfie in front of Will Cotton's Cupcake Katy at the National Portrait Gallery. Photo: Paul Morigi/AP Images for National Portrait Gallery. Tragically, the many-layered selfie ...

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, announced that art star Will Cotton‘s portrait of pop icon Katy Perry, titled Cupcake Katy (2010), will go on view in the museum on June 18 as ...

Will Cotton (known as much for Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video as his art) and Rose Dergan of the Gagosian Gallery have bought a full-floor loft at 14 Harrison Street.

"Will Cotton’s tongue-in-cheek portrait of Katy as a ‘cupcake’ brings to mind a traditional European portrait of a bewitching 18th-century belle," says Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet.