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'At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World'

From September 7, 2024 through November 2, 2024
  • David Zwirner Gallery, 606 N. Western Ave., Melrose Hill
Free
An Alice Neel painting. It depicts a man with dark hair and mustache leaning on his hand as if bored. He's wearing a red sweater or jacket over a collared shirt.
Alice Neel, Dennis Florio, 1978 (detail)
(Courtesy David Zwirner Gallery)

The recently expanded David Zwirner Gallery is hosting a new exhibit curated by New Yorker critic Hilton Als about the painter Alice Neel and her long history of painting people from all walks of life, including many in the queer community. The expansive show, At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World, includes paintings of politicians, philanthropists, writers, performers, artists, friends, and neighbors.