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 ...
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 ...
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, "Self‐Portrait" 1980, oil on canvas, 53 1/4 × 39 3/4 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art; © The Estate of Alice Neel) At 80 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Here comes that old question, the one that pops up when a new biography of a prominent artist or writer is published: Do we judge an artist by the life or the work? Or is it both? Alice Neel is best ...
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: Documentary. Directed by Andrew Neel. (Not rated. 82 minutes. At the Roxie.) Modern paintings have seldom looked as good onscreen as some of the portraits of Alice Neel do in her grandson ...
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 ...
History was made Monday, May 18, 2026 at Christie's New York—for just the second time in history, a single night of auctions totaled more than $1 billion.