Alice Neel (1900–1984) painted portraits of people she knew—her friends and family, her lovers, the artists, poets, and musicians she spent time with. Sometimes, too, she painted strangers—someone who ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Alice Neel painted Andy Warhol in 1970, he chose to sit topless with his eyes clamped shut. Then 70 years old, Neel was good at talking people out of their clothes; she saw disrobing them as a ...
The artist’s career-spanning survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to close. By Roberta Smith See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...
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 ...
The painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) only started to be recognized as a visionary after her time had passed. Her first major exhibition came when she was already 71 years old, at her alma mater, the ...
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, ...
Alice Neel received her first museum retrospective in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since then, Neel’s captivating portraits have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and ...
More than 25 years after her death in 1984, American painter is once again capturing the art world's attention. In part, the resurgence is because of Phoebe Hoban's new book on the artist's ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When Alice Neel was under FBI investigation in the 1950s, her file ...
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 ...