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 ...

For those who like biographies, especially of artists and their often twisted lives; for those who enjoy looking at contemporary portraits; and for unabashed fans of the artist Alice Neel, I thought I ...

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 ...

Whatever fed Alice Neel’s ferocious determination to become an artist cannot be explained by the facts of her long, hard and complex life. Those facts are full of ironies and contradictions. How did a ...

Alice Neel (American,1900-1984), Stephen Schaefer, 1977, oil on canvas, 46 x 30 inches, Bates College Museum of Art, gift of Hartley S. Neel and Richard Neel, 1997.15.1 I first saw this portrait of ...

Dominican Boys on 108th Street, 1955. (Courtesy of the Estate of Alice Neel / Tate Gallery / the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Seated on an armless mustard-green chair, Margaret Evans is nude and ...

In her engrossing new biography, "Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty" (St. Martin's, 512 pp., $35), arts journalist Phoebe Hoban has chronicled the tumultuous life of one of America's great ...

Hoban's (Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art) latest biography is a sweeping portrait of a colorful subject, the painter Alice Neel. It is also an effective cultural history of the artistic and political ...

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, ...

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 (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her career spanned ...