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Hilton Als on Alice Neel

In her beautiful, hard, and certain essay, “The Love of God and Affliction,” the religious philosopher Simone Weil said: “The great enigma of human life is not suffering but affliction.

Alice Neel, <em>Carmen and Judy</em>, 1972. Oil on canvas. 40 × 30 inches. Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Westheimer Family Collection. © The Estate of Alice Neel.
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