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Four Seasons Selects Neue Galerie as one of "10 More Reasons" to visit New York

The Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Magazine selects the Neue Galerie as one of its "10 More Reasons" to visit New York, proclaiming the museum to be "truly one of the city’s hidden museum treasures." [Read more]

17 October 2010,
Press
Chasing Beauty: T Magazine Profile of Federico de Vera

Federico de Vera has designed three exhibitions for the Neue Galerie, including the current Messerschmidt show. Judith Nasatir writes in this T Magazine profile that de Vera is "a believer in a democracy of beauty." [Read more]

17 October 2010,
Press
Financial Times: "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Neue Galerie, New York"

Writes Ariella Budick, "The small show’s wallop vastly exceeds its size. Messerschmidt is not a household name here, but he deserves to be, and the Neue Galerie steps outside its usual purview...to give him a stunning presentation." [Read more]

17 October 2010,
Press
Travel + Leisure Recommends Neue Galerie Design Shop

When asked to recommend a "few great" museum gift shops, T+L contributing editor Raul Barreneche, author of the forthcoming The Tropical Modern House, recommends the Neue Galerie Design Shop. [Download the article as a pdf]

29 September 2010,
Press
The New York Review of Books: Messerschmidt's Mad Faces

"Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) is one of those elusive 18th-century figures who confront us with the nocturnal side of the enlightenment. In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was not only a madman but also a mad artist." [Read more]

29 September 2010,
Press
One Finger Typing: Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

"Once in the same room with Klimt's portrait, though, I stopped and stared for a long and fascinated while. The work is flat-out beautiful, neither giddy nor gaudy. Its masses of not-quite-regular ornament draw the viewer into the painting..." [Read more]

29 September 2010,
Press
DNAinfo: Upper East Side Gallery Teams With Louvre for Exhibit

"Sculptures by Austro-Bavarian artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt made their U.S. debut at the Upper East Side's Neue Galerie. Messerschmidt’s exhibition also marks the first time that Neue Galerie...has collaborated with the Louvre Museum." [Read more]

29 September 2010,
Press
Rugarberry: Messerschmidt’s Creative Mania

"A distinguished group of individuals queued outside the Neue Galerie's 86th Street entrance for a private preview of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s arresting sculptural grimaces which hinted of mental unrest." [Read more]

29 September 2010,
Press
The New York Times: "Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time"

“Anything great in this world has come from neurotics,” Marcel Proust wrote. He could easily have been referring to a string of manic, morose and sometimes quite mad artists who came and went over the centuries... [Read more]

22 September 2010,
Press
The Wall Street Journal: "Before Expressionism, Great Expressions"

One of the strangest yet most compelling figures in the history of art begins a star turn in Manhattan Thursday as the Neue Galerie opens "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism."  [Download the article as a pdf]

22 September 2010,
Press

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