Hilton Als

staff writer at the New Yorker and curator of “At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World” at David Zwirner gallery

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American writer and theater critic for the New Yorker

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Alice Neel’s paintings of the queer community and their allies are on display at the David Zwirner gallery. She captured people’s true essence and never followed the herd.

Exploring artist Alice Neel’s ‘poetic acceptance of other people’

Alice Neel’s paintings of the queer community and their allies are on display at the David Zwirner gallery. She captured people’s true essence and never followed the herd.

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