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She immortalised New York’s bohemia and her own joys and struggles in paintings powerfully alert to body language and psychological vulnerabilities

Among the many arresting, unforgettable moments in this marvellous survey are two portraits of artists in states of undress. In one, the first painting we see, Alice Neel paints herself, aged 80, naked, sitting on a striped chair that we see time and again in her late period (she made…

The biggest exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits in the UK to date opens this week at the Barbican. Eloise Hendy explores the life of an artist whose canvases captured everyone from Andy Warhol to the socially marginalised

Since the field of cultural studies got its start in the 1950s, academics have been investigating what different pop cultures have to say about society. While popular culture has often been criticised as a sort of dumbing-down of “real” culture driven by purely commercial interests, research has provided important insight…