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Alice Neel

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Alice Neel Didn’t Work Alone

Avatar photo by Emily Markert August 31, 2021August 31, 2021

Despite the size and scope of the Alliance, and the involvement of figures like Neel, the group has been virtually lost to art history.

Posted inArt

Alice Neel’s Haunting Portrait of Domestic Abuse

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer July 24, 2021July 23, 2021

Alice Neel: People Come First yielded a work I had never seen and that I will never unsee.

Posted inArt

The Anti-capitalist Candor of Alice Neel

by Daniel Larkin May 11, 2021May 14, 2021

Neel’s approach defied the conventions of both schlocky social realism and traditional portraiture.

Posted inArt

A Podcast on Radical Women Unearths Rare Interviews With Alice Neel, Betye Saar, and More

by Alissa Guzman January 27, 2020September 30, 2021

This season of the Recording Artists podcast, hosted by Helen Molesworth, explores what it has meant to be a woman and artist through the lives of six iconic artists.

Posted inArt

Hoarding and Spending at Art Basel Miami Beach

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 15, 2018December 15, 2018

After Safariland, if you need to convince yourself that the art world isn’t entirely in money’s thrall, you’d want to be anywhere but here.

Posted inArt

A Year of Magical Figurative Art

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 25, 2017December 25, 2017

2017 was a strikingly strong year for all kinds of figurative representation and portraiture: contemporary, midcentury, imagined, caricatured, oil-painted, and drawn.

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Hilton Als Curates Alice Neel’s Portraits of Life in Upper Manhattan

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 22, 2017

The exhibition at David Zwirner gallery features five decades’ worth of Neel’s paintings and drawings of people of color.

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“You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes September 9, 2016September 8, 2016

Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.

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Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s the Met’s Breuer Now

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli May 7, 2016May 7, 2016

I realize that I’m coming late to the party with Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, one of the three debut exhibitions of the Met Breuer, and I have little to add to the conversation about the fundamental problem with the show.

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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino March 15, 2016March 15, 2016

At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.

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The Living, Small-Scale Portraits of Alice Neel

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino April 16, 2015April 19, 2015

Like her paintings, Alice Neel’s watercolors and drawings, now showing at David Zwirner, wobble and tilt out of proportion, only more so.

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David Zwirner Opens Summer Pop-Up Bookstore

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 26, 2011July 25, 2011

Art book lovers of the world will have something to look forward to in Manhattan this summer. Yesterday, Chelsea’s David Zwirner Gallery open its second annual summer pop-up bookstore for a two week run — it closes Friday, August 5.

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