Anke Kempkes writes about curating Queering Modernism, featuring Alice Neel, at Frieze Masters

'…Alice Neel’s emphatic, unvarnished portraits of artists, theorists, activists and gender non-conforming performers of New York’s 1960s, 70s and 80s are legendary. As critic Hilton Als observed, her subjects ‘would qualify as queer by virtue of their different take on their given field and thus the world’. The artist is presented jointly by Victoria Miro and David Zwirner.'

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Explore Alice Neel at Frieze Masters

Image: Alice Neel, Allen Ginsberg, 1966
Oil on canvas
127 x 89.5 cm
50 x 35 ¼ in
© The Estate of Alice Neel
Courtesy the Estate of Alice Neel, David Zwirner and Victoria Miro
 
October 7 2026