ART

Morris Katz, who calls himself the fastest artist alive, Thursday painted toward another Guinness record in New York. Katz, who calls himself the originator of instant art, and who paints with lightning speed with a metal palette knife and toilet paper, painted in a marathon session in a hotel lobby, planning to set a world record of about 130 paintings in 12 hours, with proceeds from the paintings sales to be donated to charity. David Boehm, editor and publisher of the American edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, said Katz’s place in the 1988 edition was assured because it was a new category and, he noted, he’d already left space.