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Don’t miss Alice Neel at the Barbican I
t’s your last chance to immerse yourself in vibrant paintings of New York’s underground.
Alice Neel (1900-1984) painted
marginalised New Yorkers from her apartment. Her vivid paintings captured artists, activists, queer performers, Black and Puerto Rican children, Greenwich Village eccen- trics, and her friends and lovers. Now, the Barbican presents the largest ever exhibition of her work in the UK to date — offering us a view of
the changing social and polit-
ical context of 20th-century America, as seen through Neel’s eyes. Considered one of the
Considered one of the great American painters, Neel described herself as ‘a collector of souls’
great American painters, Neel described herself as ‘a collector of souls’ and, in the 1960s, was dubbed ‘the court painter of the underground’. As she gained cult status, her work didn’t go unnoticed by the government. Her radical portraits (and her member- ship of the Communist Party USA) meant that she was monitored by the FBI for decades. Intrigued? Alice Neel: Hot Off Te
Griddle runs at the Barbican Art Gallery until Sunday 21 May. Te exhibition comprises more than 70 of her portraits, shown alongside archival letters, literature, film and photography, all of which brings her rich and fascinating world to life.
Marxist Girl (Irene Peslikis), 1972, Oil on canvas, 151.8 x 106.7, Daryl and Steven Roth. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel
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Until Sunday 21 May. Tickets are £18, free for members
REVIEWS Ron Kajiwara, 1971. Oil on canvas, 172.2 ‘Remarkable.’
***** — The Times ‘Superbly curated.’
***** — The Observer ‘What a pleasure this all is.’
**** — The Guardian ‘Courageous.’
**** — The Independent
Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre
barbican.org.uk/aliceneel
× 89.2 cm. Alkar Contemporary Collection (ACC), Bilbao. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel
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