Alice Neel: People Come First

Open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1, Alice Neel’s “People Come First” is a retrospective spanning the entirety of the late artist’s career, highlighting Neel as one of the most radical painters of the century. Through around 100 paintings, watercolors, and drawings, viewers will experience Neel’s career trajectory, including her work for the W.P.A. in the 1930s, up through her late style in the years leading up to her death, in 1984. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, viewers can expect to find works like the turkey sitting in a kitchen sink titled Thanksgiving from 1965, or the 1943 work The Spanish Family.