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 ...

By Rennie McDougall Photographs by Jason Schmidt ROOMS AREN’T SO important in an Alice Neel painting; her focus was on people. Her work, which attests to the cleareyed compassion Neel felt ...

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 ...

It is the title of one of the sections of “Alice Neel: People Come First,” her outstanding and moving retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In one sense, what she meant is obvious.

Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in May, from retrospectives on Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh at Levy Gorvy Dayan to Amy Sherald at the Whitney Museum.

Alice Neel was an influential artist of the mid-20th century — painting friends, family, peers, lovers, and strangers. But she stayed largely unrecognized until after she died in 1984. Now her work is ...

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 ...

“Alice Neel: Men from the Sixties” shows nine paintings by Neel. One floor below is “Diane Arbus: First Coming”, showing 28 gelatin silver prints of work by the photographer. They are the ...

Make this a great painting.” I’m really in awe of Alice Neel’s ability to hold all of that in play. I’m a shy painter. Alice was never shy. She looks hard and paints the art critic with ...

Neel’s Marxist Girl (1972), a portrait of the feminist Irene Peslikis. © The Estate of Alice Neel; courtesy of David Zwirner and Victoria Miro Among others, they ...

Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle, organised in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, will bring together paintings from throughout her sixty-year career and give this underacknowledged ...

Karen Michel reports on the Alice Neel retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Painter of New York's famous and not-so-famous, Neel's uncompromising adherence to ...