Volume 49, Number 2 · February 14, 2002
New Kind on the Block
By John Updike
New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890–1940
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, November 16, 2001–February 18, 2002
Neue Galerie, 600 pp., $75.00
Two questions come quickly to mind: (A) Does Fifth Avenue's 'Museum Mile'—stretching from the Frick Collection at 70th Street to El Museo del Barrio on 104th—need another museum, and (B) What will the new museum, the Neue Galerie New York, at Fifth and 86th, do for its next show? This inaugural exhibit, like a tell-all first novel, seems to hold little in reserve; the museum, as described in its own press release, 'is a museum devoted to German and Austrian art, in particular the art created in...the early part of the twentieth century,' and the cream of its collections—a generous splash, but on Museum Mile a drop in the bucket—has been put on view.
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