"The painter himself said he was neither for war nor against war. Instead he provided a kind of modified reportage, Peters said, that is "a reflection of war... filtered through experience and memories but also reflected through the basis of Dix's knowledge of art history." [Read more]

"Though raw in content and at times appearance, Dix's work should not be taken as loose and expressive. It is tight and focused visually, and thematically the ouvre as a whole bottlenecks to passion and violence, portrayed with theatricality and grotesqueness." [Read more]

New York Observer journalist Amanda Julius calls both Café Sabarsky and Café Fledermaus "impressive," but recommends Fledermaus as "something of an insider secret." To read the entire article, follow this link.

This May, the museum is pleased to present lectures by New York Times journalist Roger Cohen and Dix expert Philipp Gutbrod, and a dramatic performance inspired by the painting Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber performed by Colleen Werthmann. [More information about May events]