"The biggest thing to understand is this: the Neue Galerie is staying put. The six-story Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue will remain open as its own dedicated museum space, complete with its galleries, staff, design shop and the deeply beloved Café Sabarsky. It will simply become part of the Met's institutional universe-similar to how The Met Cloisters operates today-and the new name will be the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie."
"While the museum is encyclopedic in scale, its holdings in Vienna 1900 and German modernism have never been nearly as dominant as its collections in, say, French Impressionism or ancient art. The Neue changes that overnight. The merger brings more than 600 works into the Met ecosystem, including major pieces by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others."
"The crown jewel is Klimt's “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” better known as the shimmering “Woman in Gold,” which Ronald Lauder famously"
The Neue Galerie New York will officially merge with the Met in 2028, creating a major collection of early 20th-century Austrian and German art. The Neue Galerie will not close or disappear; its six-story Beaux-Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue will remain open as a dedicated museum space. The galleries, staff, design shop, and Café Sabarsky will continue operating, and the museum will become part of the Met’s institutional universe. The new name will be the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie. The Met will gain more than 600 works, including major pieces by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, highlighted by Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.”
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