Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

While her New York peers were fighting over the future of abstraction, Alice Neel was urgently capturing life

Buttinger, a psychoanalyst who also helped hundreds of Jews and anti-fascists flee Nazi Austria in the 1930s, sat for one of Neel’s inimitable portrait paintings in 1966

The audio show will be released on podcast platforms first, from 1 December

Only five of the 59 lots went unsold in the auction last night

From Alice Neel at the Met to an ode to the first Black woman astronaut by Damien Davis

The survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will shed light on Neel’s recurring subjects, from family members and lovers to the bohemians and activists she collaborated with

As a biography on the US painter is republished, its author Phoebe Hoban tells us why Neel’s work is more relevant than ever