What’s Doing at New York City’s Museums
Abraham Cruzvillegas, “Blind Self-Portrait” in the Repetition and Difference exhibition at the Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum
Also on the Museum Mile, on 5th Avenue at 92nd St., the Jewish Museum opened to the public in 1947 following the end of World War II. It contains the largest collection of art and Jewish culture outside of Israel. Over 26,000 objects from past and present from every area of the world depict a living record of Jewish history.
While the magnificent Helena Rubinstein exhibition just ended, the Jewish Museum offers various other attractions, including works from notable artists such as Andy Warhol, Adolph Gottlieb, and Alfred Stieglitz. Additionally, one of the museum’s permanent exhibits explores the evolution of Jewish culture.
Museum of Modern Art
Located on 53rd St., between 5th Ave. and the Avenue of The Americas, in Midtown Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art is considered by many to have the greatest collection of modern Western pieces in the world.
Entrance, Neue Galerie
Over 150,000 individual pieces are housed in the museum, as well as approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills. Among many others, the museum is the repository of works from notable artists such as Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Frieda Kahlo, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Henri Rousseau, and Vincent van Gogh.
Neue Galerie
Another museum on the Museum Mile, between 85th and 86th streets, the Neue Galerie is a repository of some of the best early twentieth-century German and Austrian works outside of Central Europe.
Housed in an early 20th century Louis XIII/Beaux Arts mansion, the museum’s second floor features Austrian fine art and decorative art including paintings by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele, as well as decorative objects from the Wiener Werkstätte. The third floor focuses on German works from the same period and houses works by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee among others.
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