Carmelo Anthony, Misty Copeland, and More: These Artists and Athletes Are In a League of Their Own

Fast-forward to two years ago, when Barney released Drawing Restraint 28, a film of artist Alex Katz not just as a painter but as an athlete. In the three-channel video, Katz, 98, uses his physical body in a concrete space, his outstretched, powerful arms punching up to certain parts of the canvas, his brush-stuck fingers making a detailed hot orange depiction of a road near his house in Maine. The nonagenarian in a studio gridiron is fighting a physical battle. Painting is a sport to be…