an exclusive extract from her new biography, Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

The show that Ken Johnson previewed with incendiary effect.

The British painter’s portraits of women are on view through June 22

A review of Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban

Thinking of herself as a “collector of souls,” Neel created an oeuvre that not only reveals different facets of humanity, but also sums up the diversity of American urban society.

Cheim & Read 547 West 25th Street New York City 212 242 7727 September 20 to November 3, 2007 In Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s “Triumph of Death” (circa 1562), hordes of skeletons swarm upon a town, pitilessly inflicting lessons about the transitoriness of life and its diversions. Popular depictions of death have evolved in the … Continued