Alice Neel Bares All

A couple of weeks ago, when relaying news that Hauser & Wirth will open a New York City gallery in September, we mentioned the splendid Alice Neel exhibition—”Nudes of the 1930s“—on view at Zwirner & Wirth through next Saturday (a concurrent show of Neel’s paintings is up at David Zwirner). Now Jason Boog, editor of our bookish brother blog, Galleycat, has whipped up a video that illuminates Neel’s involvement with the Works Progress Administration (her pay: approximately $90.00