At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World

About the Author

Alice Neel (1900-1984) is widely regarded as one of the foremost American artists of the twentieth century. Working from life and memory, Neel depicted those around her with unfazed accuracy, honesty, and compassion.

Hilton Als is a writer with focus in theater criticism. He became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994, a theater critic in 2002, and chief theater critic in 2013. His most recent book, White Girls (2013), discusses various narratives around race, identity, gender, and sexuality, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Alex Fialho (he/they) is an art historian, curator, and PhD candidate in Yale University's Combined PhD program in the History of Art and African American Studies. Fialho's writing has been published in exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Andy Warhol Museum, among other institutions.

Evan Garza is a curator, scholar, and a Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Their writing on the work of global contemporary artists has been published in several books and monographs and by IMMA, The Drawing Center, Flash Art, ART PAPERS, Hyperallergic, and Artforum.

Wayne Koestenbaum-poet, critic, fiction writer, artist, and filmmaker-has published more than twenty books, including The Queen's Throat, Camp Marmalade, Humiliation, Hotel Theory. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer. Her twentieth book is Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993.