Alice Neel and Gay Liberation | Insider Insights

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Explore Alice Neel's relationship with queer culture and the vivid portraits of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) subjects she painted in the 1970s, including artist Jackie Curtis and poet Adrienne Rich. Learn how Neel’s portraits coincided with the gay liberation movement, contributed to increasing queer visibility, and used visual puns as a means of encoding queer sexual identity and desire. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/alice-neel Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum?sub_confirmation=1 Insider Insights and captioning are made possible by the Ruth Lapham Lloyd Trust. #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art