Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle

Thu 18 May 2023, 18:30

Alice Neel spent her later life surrounded by writers, and brought this lyrical sensibility to her paintings. In this tour, poet and editor Rochelle Roberts unveils Neel’s poetic instinct.

Thu 11 May 2023, 19:00

Three recently restored works by pioneering African American filmmakers complement and interrogate Alice Neel's approach to painting downtrodden America.

Wed 10 May 2023, 18:30

A tour of Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle suitable for blind and partially sighted visitors, led by Lisa Squirrel who will describe key works on display. 

Thu 4 May 2023, 18:30

Alice Neel understood the power of art institutions, saying ‘nothing could be more important than that one’s work be shown’. Join a unique tour with the designers of Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle.

Sat 29 Apr –Tue 2 May 2023

A relaxed viewing of Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle.

Thu 27 Apr 2023, 18:30

Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle highlights Neel’s political sensibility. For this tour, Dr Matthew James Holman focuses on Neel’s most political subjects and the era’s alarmism over left-wing groups.

Tue 25 Apr 2023, 18:30

A British Sign Language tour of the exhibition Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle led by John Wilson, exclusively for D/deaf and hard of hearing visitors, highlighting key artworks, using BSL. 

Thu 20 Apr 2023, 18:30

Taxi drivers and radical feminists, intellectuals and family friends: Alice Neel painted a remarkable variety of people to fulfil her ambition of ‘plumbing the depths of the human creature’.

Thu 13 Apr 2023, 18:30

These films explore Alice Neel's leftist bohemianism: from the Communist cultural front of the 1930s to the Beats to queer communities in the 1960s.

Thu 6 Apr 2023, 18:30

Neel explained in her artist statement of 1960: ‘I decided to paint a human comedy.’ For this special evening, curator Eleanor Nairne speaks about a few of her favourite paintings from the exhibition.

Tue 4 Apr 2023, 18:00

Join us after hours and get behind-the-scenes of Hot Off The Griddle and them's the breaks at an evening of art, talks, DJs, drinks, and workshops with Originary Arts.

Thu 30 Mar 2023, 18:30

A series of filmic portraits exploring how female artists have used the moving image to create works drawing formal, political, personal and aesthetic qualities from the medium of portraiture. 

Fri 24 Mar 2023, 18:30

Join us to dance, draw and party in our activity-packed night, celebrating the London Latinx Creative community.

Thu 9 Mar 2023, 18:30

Young Barbican members take over the Gallery and Conservatory, for a night of exclusive access to Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle.

Thu 2 Mar 2023, 18:30

Alice Neel almost always painted from life, sometimes over as many as 15 to 20 sittings. Join artist and meditation teacher Elisa de Grey as she walks us through the exhibition.

Thu 23 Feb 2023, 18:30

‘I know all the theory of everything, but when I paint I don’t think of anything except the subject and me.’ Join us for an evening exploring how Neel made her remarkable paintings of people.

Thu 16 Feb –Sun 21 May 2023

The largest exhibition to date in the UK of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984), whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century.