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A Virtual Tour of Alice Neel: People Come First

Join the exhibition’s co-curators on a tour of this landmark exhibition.

Co-curators Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey take us on a virtual tour of Alice Neel: People Come First, which presents Alice Neel (1900–1984) as one of the twentieth century’s most radical artists and a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her art.


Contributors

Kelly Baum
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Randall Griffey
Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

Black-and-white photo of an Indigenous man, superimposed with contemporary annotations in red marker.
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Several people install a monumental black-and-beige abstract splatter painting in a gallery, working together with care and concentration.
Video
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