, 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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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Former President Ronald Reagan demanded in 1989.
While the Cold War officially ended in 1991 and freed millions from the communist regime of the Soviet Union, 30 years later is appeared soviet thought has seeped into the U.S.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) was founded in 1919 and claims to have “championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women’s equality, racial justice and peace for 100 years.”
Still, CPUSA makes clear that socialism is the way to communism, according to a statement posted on their website.
“For democracy. For equality. For socialism,” the group says.
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