At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World

About Alice NeelHilton Als

Alice Neel (19001984) is widely regarded as one of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century. Working from life and memory Neel depicted those around her with unfazed accuracy honesty and compassion. Hilton Als is a writer with focus in theater criticism. He became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 a theater critic in 2002 and chief theater critic in 2013. His most recent book White Girls (2013) discusses various narratives around race identity gender and sexuality and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Alex Fialho (he/they) is an art historian curator and PhD candidate in Yale Universitys Combined PhD program in the History of Art and African American Studies. Fialhos writing has been published in exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art the Studio Museum in Harlem Socrates Sculpture Park and the Andy Warhol Museum among other institutions. Evan Garza is a curator scholar and a Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow at MASS MoCA in North Adams Massachusetts. Their writing on the work of global contemporary artists has been published in several books and monographs and by IMMA The Drawing Center Flash Art ART PAPERS Hyperallergic and Artforum. Wayne Koestenbaumpoet critic fiction writer artist and filmmakerhas published more than twenty books including The Queens Throat Camp Marmalade Humiliation Hotel Theory. He is a Distinguished Professor of English French and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Sarah Schulman is a novelist playwright screenwriter and nonfiction writer. Her twentieth book is Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP NY 19871993.