Watch American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) speak about her painting and activism. Alice Neel: People Come First, on view at The Met from March 22–August 1, 2021, is Neel’s first museum retrospective in New York in 20 years. This ambitious survey of over 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors highlights one of the century’s most radical painters and a champion of social justice.

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