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 ...

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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 ...

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 (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 ...

Tenacity might be the secret of success, but it often comes with a price. “Alice Neel,” an emotionally complex and vibrant documentary about an American portrait painter who received major recognition ...

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 was anything but an overnight success. A portrait painter during an era when representation, let alone portraiture, had fallen out of the art world’s favor, she struggled with poverty and ...

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, "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 ...

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 ...