, exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 22–August 1, 2021
Nearly four decades after her death, American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) has received the major museum retrospective she has long deserved,
Alice Neel: People Come First, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Neel painted over the course of six decades, for the most part, until the last 20 years of her life, in relative obscurity. Her vibrant, idiosyncratic portraits are characterized above all by their candor and keen observation, which were at times unflattering but rarely without insight.
Neel’s “Human Comedy,” as she thought of her work, was conceived along the lines of French novelist Honoré de Balzac’s series of interconnected novels (1829–1848) by that title, which depicted every social class. Through choosing sitters among bohemians in Greenwich Village, the working class in Spanish Harlem, labor activists and Communist Party leaders of the 1940 and ‘50s and
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MFA widens the angle on women photographers
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated May 5, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
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Adriana Lestido s Mother and Daughter from Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, 1982.Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
âWomen Take the Floor,â the Museum of Fine Artsâs necessary and colossal penance for neglecting women artists for 150 years, has now welcomed photographers into the fold.
A new installation, âPersonal and Political: Women Photographers, 1965-1985â distills a period of sea change when photography was finally fully embraced as art. Photo galleries opened; collecting began in earnest. Women picked up cameras hoping the newly legitimized medium would provide better art-world traction than, say, painting.
Young Woman Drawing (1801). The painting was the cover image on
ARTnews for the 1971 publication of Linda Nochlin’s article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
MoMA hosts a virtual forum on critic Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” published in
ARTnews in 1971. On the occasion of the article’s 50th anniversary, Roxana Marcoci, the museum’s senior photography curator, and Julia Trotta, a filmmaker, curator, and writer, will look at the barriers to art world success that women have historically faced, and the recent effects of the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements. Speakers include artists Ming Smith, Legacy Russell, and Zoe Leonard; Myriam Ben Salah, executive director of Chicago’s Renaissance Society; and Wanda Nanibush, curator of Indigenous art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others.