LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT

For more than 50 years, painter Alice Neel created provocative, painfully revealing – and often nude and famously unflattering – portraits of art-world insiders. On the eve of the Whitney Museum’s Neel retrospective, eleven of her former subjects reflect on what it was like to sit for “a genius at detecting her subjects’ inner lives and notorious for exposing – and exaggerating – her subjects’ flaws. – New York Magazine