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, ...

In the 1978 documentary "Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts," the artist said, "One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle. ... "With me, painting was ...

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 ...

Painter Alice Neel's first retrospective in 20 years is both timely and ambitious. And people are flocking to see her portraits, a chronicle of... Alice Neel's Paintings Meet The Moment At The Met ...

David Zwirner Gallery recently gave the late figurative painter Alice Neel prime real estate in its prominent Chelsea locale, also releasing an accompanying exhibition catalogue by Radius Books. Alice ...

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 painter Alice Neel was neglected in her lifetime, but is today “celebrated for her unflinching yet compassionate gaze”, said Chloë Ashby in The Times. Born into a conservative family in ...

At a New York gallery in 1980, the artist Alice Neel unveiled a portrait of herself holding a paintbrush and sitting in front of a canvas while completely nude. Neel's brave and unflinching ...

This retrospective of paintings by Alice Neel (1900–1984) – one of North America’s most important female artists, although largely unappreciated during her own lifetime – is the fruit of a ...

In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin transformed the art history debate by asking: “Why have there been no great women artists?”, a question with profound implications for rethinking the gendered ...

Alice Neel was an American painter known for her Expressionistic portraits of her friends, family, and lovers. Her dynamic use of color and line captured the interior emotional life of her sitters, ...