Alice Neel has a fascinatingly eccentric place in pop culture. A few years ago, I did a bunch of research to review her show at the Metropolitan Museum, but you don’t always get to use all the ...
What the museum says: “‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ is the first museum retrospective in New York of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) in 20 years. This ambitious survey positions Neel as one ...
Hall Collection. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London. In January, two days before Donald Trump’s ...
Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In Alice Neel’s 1972 painting of Irene Peslikis, the feminist artist and activist is draped over a purple chair, her left ...
In this searing, startlingly nonjudgmental documentary, famed painter Alice Neel receives a portrayal worthy of her art from grandson Andrew Neel. In this searing, startlingly nonjudgmental ...
Alice Neel, "Hartley with Cat" (1969), oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (© The Estate of Alice Neel; image courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner) For six decades, Alice Neel ...
Like her paintings, Alice Neel’s watercolors and drawings, now showing at David Zwirner, wobble and tilt out of proportion, only more so. Three women seemingly seated next to one another have eyes, ...
The retrospective of American artist Alice Neel at London’s Barbican Centre is long overdue. First held in New York in 2021, the show travelled to the Pompidou Centre in 2022 and is now in London, ...
NEW YORK — Days after seeing "People Come First," a career-spanning Alice Neel survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, an afterimage of her brisk vision of vibrant humanity still pulses ...
Alice Neel made it to the Met! At last. Born in 1900, she painted all her life, often in obscurity. In the 1970s, feminists discovered and lauded her. She got attention. Right now visitors are ...
Alice Neel was a painter who lived in Harlem. Her entire life, she created portraits of (mostly) New Yorkers, seated in their kitchens, at bars, among loved ones, gazing out their windows. As Neel ...
Alice Neel, ‘The Spanish Family’, 1943, and ‘Ron Kajiwara’, 1971 (© The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel) An 80-year-old woman looks back at us wearing nothing but a pair of ...