The Barbican is hosting the largest ever UK exhibition on American artist Alice Neel, bringing together works from across her 60-year career. Painting figuratively during a time when the style was unfashionable, Neel developed a distinctive expressionistic style, which you can see in her portraits, which were often those marginalised in society, like civil rights activists, queer performers, Black and Puerto Rican children, labour leaders and pregnant women. As well as her paintings, archival material including photography, film and letters, will be presented in the exhibition, showing the politics of her work.