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Alice Neel has received glowing praise in the press. Here’s a selection of reviews
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The New York Times
September 30, 2021
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’ By Will Heinrich
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’ By Will Heinrich
The canvases in “Alice Neel: The Early Years,” at David Zwirner, curated by Ginny Neel, the artist’s daughter-in-law, with Bellatrix Hubert … are arranged, very loosely, in order of size and weight as well as chronology, as if to guide viewers toward a transcendent encounter with the artist’s grown sons. Captured, with Neel’s singular magic … are pulsing, slippery and alive, at once present and opaque.
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New York Times Apartment
The New York Times
September 10, 2021
‘Alice Neel’s Apartment Is Still a Portrait of the Artist at Work.’ By Rennie McDougall
‘Alice Neel’s Apartment Is Still a Portrait of the Artist at Work.’ By Rennie McDougall
Continued and growing interest in Neel’s paintings could be viewed as inevitable — her focus on those who lived on society’s margins speaks directly to our cultural moment.
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New York Times Review
The New York Times
April 1, 2021
‘It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon.’ By Roberta Smith
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‘It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon.’ By Roberta Smith
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Washington Post Review
The Washington Post
March 25, 2021
‘Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish.’ By Sebastian Smee
‘Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish.’ By Sebastian Smee
Particularly memorable is her astonishing sequence of tender yet frank, unidealized portraits ... one of the signal achievements of modern American art.
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The New Yorker Review
The New Yorker
April 26, 2021
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference.’ By Hilton Als
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference.’ By Hilton Als
There’s a profound spiritual component to the work; her intense and casual surfaces feel like a wall that she wants her subjects’ souls to walk through to meet ours.
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Vulture Review
The Vulture
April 6, 2021
‘The Detonations of Alice Neel: The artist’s portrait show at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.’ By Jerry Saltz
‘The Detonations of Alice Neel: The artist’s portrait show at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.’ By Jerry Saltz
It’s easy to recognize her greatness in retrospect, when her work is celebrated in a setting like this. For most of Neel’s 84 years, though, she was artistically on her own. “I broke all the rules,” she said.
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Artnet Review
Artnet
April 2, 2021
‘Painter Alice Neel’s Career Survey at the Met Suggests What Empathy Can Look Like in an Age of Difference.’
‘Painter Alice Neel’s Career Survey at the Met Suggests What Empathy Can Look Like in an Age of Difference.’
Now, with this full career survey at the Met, she finally finds a permanent place in the Western canon as a forerunner to the representational painters who dominate today’s headlines.
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Smithsonian Review
Smithsonian Magazine
March 30, 2021
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits Put People First’
By Isis Davis-Marks
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits Put People First’
By Isis Davis-Marks
In 1970, Alice Neel created a stunning portrait of Andy Warhol. The painting—created two years after radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempted to assassinate the Pop Art icon—depicts its blue-tinged, shirtless subject in an uncharacteristically vulnerable position.
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Press intro
Alice Neel has received glowing praise in the press. Here’s a selection of reviews
Zwerner NY Times quote
The New York Times
September 10, 2021
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’
By Will Heinrich
‘Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now.’
By Will Heinrich
The canvases in “Alice Neel: The Early Years,” at David Zwirner, curated by Ginny Neel, the artist’s daughter-in-law, with Bellatrix Hubert … are arranged, very loosely, in order of size and weight as well as chronology, as if to guide viewers toward a transcendent encounter with the artist’s grown sons. Captured, with Neel’s singular magic …
Read here
Read here
New York Times Apartment
The New York Times
September 10, 2021
‘Alice Neel’s Apartment Is Still a Portrait of the Artist at Work.’
By Rennie McDougall
‘Alice Neel’s Apartment Is Still a Portrait of the Artist at Work.’
By Rennie McDougall
Continued and growing interest in Neel’s paintings could be viewed as inevitable — her focus on those who lived on society’s margins speaks directly to our cultural moment.
Read here
Read here
New York Times Review
The New York Times
April 1, 2021
‘It’s time to put Alice Neel in her rightful place in the pantheon.’
By Rennie McDougall
‘It’s time to put Alice Neel in her rightful place in the pantheon.’
By Rennie McDougall
A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about the artist’s originality or her importance...
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Read here
Washington Post Review
The Washington Post
March 25, 2021
‘Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish.’ By Sebastian Smee
‘Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish.’ By Sebastian Smee
Particularly memorable is her astonishing sequence of tender yet frank, unidealized portraits ... one of the signal achievements of modern American art.
Read here
Read here
New Yorker Review
The New Yorker
April 26, 2021
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference.’ By Hilton Als
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference.’ By Hilton Als
There’s a profound spiritual component to the work; her intense and casual surfaces feel like a wall that she wants her subjects’ souls to walk through to meet ours.
Read here
Read here
Vulture Review
The Vulture
April 6, 2021
‘The Detonations of Alice Neel: The artist’s portrait show at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.’
By Jerry Saltz
‘The Detonations of Alice Neel: The artist’s portrait show at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.’
By Jerry Saltz
It’s easy to recognize her greatness in retrospect, when her work is celebrated in a setting like this. For most of Neel’s 84 years, though, she was artistically on her own.
Read here
Read here
Artnet Review
Artnet
April 2, 2021
‘Painter Alice Neel’s Career Survey at the Met Suggests What Empathy Can Look Like in an Age of Difference.’
‘Painter Alice Neel’s Career Survey at the Met Suggests What Empathy Can Look Like in an Age of Difference.’
Now, with this full career survey at the Met, she finally finds a permanent place in the Western canon as a forerunner to the representational painters who dominate today’s headlines.
Read here
Read here
Smithsonian Review
Smithsonian Magazine
March 30, 2021
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits Put People First.’
By Isis Davis-Marks
‘Alice Neel’s Portraits Put People First.’
By Isis Davis-Marks
In 1970, artist Alice Neel created a stunning portrait of Andy Warhol. The painting ... depicts its blue-tinged, shirtless subject in an uncharacteristically vulnerable position.
Read here
Read here
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