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 ...

Alice Neel has a fascinatingly eccentric place in pop culture. A few years ago, I did a bunch of research to review her show at the Metropolitan Museum, but you don’t always get to use all the ...

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, "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 ...

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 ...

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 was a painter who lived in Harlem. Her entire life, she created portraits of (mostly) New Yorkers, seated in their kitchens, at bars, among loved ones, gazing out their windows. As 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 ...

I saw M by Fritz Lang in a film class in college and decided filmmaking was what I wanted to do. I was a philosophy major and I took a lot of photos…so i decided with filmmaking I could bring the two ...