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It’s First Friday! The Neue Galerie is open late to the public free of charge on the first Friday of every month. Join us today, Friday, June 3. Guests will be admitted free at 4 p.m. and the galleries will remain open until 7 p.m. Our Book Store and Design Shop stay open late, too.
Due to the popularity of First Fridays, please expect to wait in a line outside of the museum for entry. Admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that the Neue Galerie requires face masks for entry.
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"Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie”
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This gaunt young woman with her hand on her hip and her elbow jutting into our space has struck a pose so contorted that it is almost uncomfortable to look at. This sheet is one of a handful of rapidly drawn sketches of Lilith Lang that Oskar Kokoschka executed in late 1907 and early 1908. In them, he emphasized her boyish body, which is highlighted with violet tones on the forearms and hands, the cheeks, and the small bow atop her head.
NOW ON VIEW
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Oskar Kokoschka, “Seated N**e Girl, Left Hand Resting on Hip,” 1908, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper. Neue Galerie New York. Gift of the Serge and Vally Sabarsky Foundation, Inc. © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zürich
Something new and exciting!
Neue Galerie New York is delighted to present Filmbar, a newly imagined movie series hosted in Café Fledermaus. Filmbar tickets include access to the museum’s galleries, one complimentary drink and snack, and a movie screening in Café Fledermaus, a relaxed bar atmosphere reminiscent of early 20th century Vienna. During the screening, you are invited to sip on a glass of wine, beer or a non-alcoholic beverage and enjoy a savory treat.
Join us on Friday, June 10 at 5:30 p.m. for the inaugural screening of the series. The Royal Game / Schachnovelle, directed by Phillip Stölzl will be presented in German with English subtitles.
Tickets are available at
neuegalerie.org/filmbar
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Josef Hoffmann, Bar Room, Cabaret Fledermaus, Vienna, Kärntnerstrasse 33 (detail), 1907, chromolithograph. Wiener Werkstätte Postcard 74. The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Neue Galerie New York; Interior view of the bar at Cabaret Fledermaus, ca. 1907.
Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with a visit to the Neue Galerie. The museum, shops, and cafés are open with regular hours on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org ✨
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| Two-time Grammy nominee Theo Bleckmann performed in Café Sabarsky, breathing delicate life into classic Weimar-era music, including works by Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and others. Bleckmann delivered these songs with a distinct tenderness, clarity and care. His “inimitable splendor” (San Francisco Classical Voice) heightens these songs’ uncanny political potency today.
❗You can join the waitlist for Cabaret at Café Sabarsky, as tickets for this season have sold out. To learn more about the variety of programs offered by the Neue Galerie, consider subscribing to our free e-newsletter. You’ll get the inside scoop about upcoming performances.
neuegalerie.org/cabaret ✨
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📷 Renée Price
The Neue Galerie Design Shop collaborates with renowned contemporary designers to create original pieces inspired by the museum’s collection, and we are exceptionally proud to introduce textile artist and fashion designer Sophie Digard. From her studio in Paris she designs chic accessories made with entirely organic materials, which are selected for their beauty and environmental sustainability. Digard's technique of combining differently colored fibers into a single thread allows her to create a natural yet sophisticated color palette all her own. Hand-dyed and crocheted in her workshop on the Indian Ocean, every raffia handbag is a work of art.
Sophie Digard for Neue NOW is available at shop.neuegalerie.org ✨
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Image courtesy Sophie Digard
See something familiar?
Yesterday, we shared a brooch designed by Josef Hoffmann. In this photograph, you see it worn by Sonja Knips. She is also wearing a Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) dress. The Wiener Werkstätte inaugurated its own fashion department in 1910, which quickly proved to be one of the most profitable divisions within the firm. It catered to a well-heeled clientele, such as Sonja, and offered artistic clothing, hats, shoes, and other accessories.
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Sonja Knips wearing a Wiener Werkstätte house dress and two brooches by Josef Hoffmann, 1911
The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), an artists and craftsmen collective, was launched in 1903. At its outset, the firm focused on metalwork, including jewelry. This intricate brooch was designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1910.
NOW ON VIEW
“Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie”
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Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), Brooch acquired by Sonja Knips, 1910, Ex*****on: Wiener Werkstätte, silver, partly gilt; amethyst, coral. Private Collection
The Neue Galerie Design Shop collaborates with renowned contemporary designers to create original pieces inspired by the museum’s collection, and we are exceptionally proud to introduce Angela Damman. Artists such as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann were united in an ideal of forging a Gesamtkunstwerk (total-work-of-art). In the spirit of the Gesamtkunstwerk, Damman embraces a distinct approach to incorporating the natural world in her practice with a focus on sustainability. She has brought her passion for design and her experience in sustainable product innovation to Yucatán, Mexico. One design from her studio can generate economic opportunities in several communities, and each one carries the mark of the hands that made it. Weaving plant fibers on back strap looms is remarkably complicated. It is a skill, an art form, passed down for many generations by women in the Mayan villages of Yucatan.
Angela Damman for Neue NOW is now available both in-store and online at shop.neuegalerie.org ✨
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Image courtesy Angela Damman
"For the Neue Galerie in New York, that sparkling, perfect gem of a museum, an anniversary is a moment to marvel. How, in only twenty years, has a small, idiosyncratic museum accomplished so much? How, in such a short time, has it gone from a concept to a sublime reality? For many art lovers and connoisseurs, it's their favorite museum."
– The Magazine ANTIQUES
Pick up the May / June 2022 issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES, which features “Homage to the Neue Galerie” by Brian Allen.
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Neue Galerie New York celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the museum this year, and the latest presentation of “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” features highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of Austrian art from the period 1890 to 1940, including major works by Egon Schiele.
NOW ON VIEW
“Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie”
Plan your visit at
www.neuegalerie.org
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Segment from a conversation between Ronald S. Lauder, the Neue Galerie’s founding President, and Renée Price, the museum’s Director. 🎥:
Back at the Neue Galerie by popular demand, Austrian chanteuse Valérie Sajdik returned to Café Sabarsky last night, bearing a bouquet of timeless songs more resonant than ever. With a program spanning the Weimar era through the 1960s, “Austria’s most beautiful voice” charmed cabaret-goers with music from Berlin, Vienna and Paris.
❗You can join the waitlist for Cabaret at Café Sabarsky, as tickets for this season have sold out. To learn more about the variety of programs offered by the Neue Galerie, consider subscribing to our free e-newsletter. You’ll get the inside scoop about upcoming performances.
neuegalerie.org/cabaret ✨
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