By David D’Arcy In New York, museums and galleries are racing toward a new normal, whatever that might be. Most exhibitions that opened earlier in the year will stay open into the summer. Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 4. Visitors should arrive […]
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Alice Neel, Painter of the People
Portraiture was a bourgeois concept to the late American painter Alice Neel. She preferred to describe her work as “pictures of people.” These pictures, painted in her signature style of detailed figuration with abstract flourishes, evade the kinds of commercial appeal that made portraits so marketable to the rich. Her […]