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A show at David Nolan recalls an era when the Madison Avenue galleries were more about art than money — and female dealers shaped the scene.

"The Andy Warhol Diaries" on Netflix begins with the shocking story of Valerie Solanas trying to kill the artist.

James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento

The eclectic lives behind Alice Neel's portraits A visitor studies Alice Neel’s 1964 portrait of the civil rights leader James Farmer in the exhibition “People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 29, 2021. Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times. by Erica Ackerberg (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- My introduction to painter Alice Neel was a screen print that hung on the living room wall of my grandparents’ home in Woodstock, New York — a provocative portrait of Neel’s pouting granddaughter lounging on a striped chair. That portrait then moved within my family, to Minneapol...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. If you’re looking for the opposite of social distancing – and who isn’t, these days? – then Alice Neel is there for you. There, that is, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has recently opened a full-scale survey of this greatest of 20th-century portraitists (‘Alice Neel: People Come First’; until 1 August). Go if you can, and revel in the sheer presence of so many unmasked faces, so many interesting humans – the encounter with each one unforgettable. The timing of the show could not be better. Newly decamped from the Breuer building on ...