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1 Neue Galerie stonework in an extension is by
New York the stonemasons of St. John the
Divine (see pp220–21).
1048 5th Ave at E 86th St. Map 16 F3. Objects have been brought
Tel (212) 628-6200. q 86th St. here from all over the world,
@ M1–4. Open 11am–6pm Thu– some at great risk of persecution
Mon. Closed public hols. & 9 ^ to the donors. Covering 4,000
0 Café 9am–6pm Mon & Wed,
9am–9pm Thu–Sun. = 7 years, artifacts include Torah
∑ neuegalerie.org crowns, candelabras, kiddush
cups, plates, scrolls, and silver Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design
Founded by art dealer Serge ceremonial objects. Museum entrance
Sabarsky and philanthropist There is a Torah ark from the
Ronald Lauder, this museum’s Benguiat Collection, the exquisite The museum offers a variety of
objective is to collect, research, faience entrance wall of a displays, from digitally printed
and exhibit the fine and deco- 16th-century Persian synagogue, fruit to steel necklaces, rubber
rative arts of Germany and Austria and the powerful Holocaust by chairs, and porcelain chess sets.
from the early 20th century. sculptor George Segal. Changing It also has the largest ensemble
The Louis XIII-style Beaux Arts exhibitions reflect Jewish life and of paintings by the American
structure was completed in 1914 experience around artists, Frederic Edwin Church
by Carrère & Hastings, who also the world. and Winslow Homer. Apart from
designed the New York Public the permanent collection, there
Library (see p142). Once occupied are several temporary exhibits
by Mrs. Cornelius as well.
Vanderbilt III, the mansion
was pur chased by Lauder
and Sabarsky in 1994. The 4 Ukrainian
ground floor has a book-shop Institute
and the Café Sabarsky (see p303);
the second is devoted to the 2 East 79th St. Map 16 F5. Tel (212)
works of Klimt and Schiele, and A 19th-century ewer and basin from 288-8660. q 86th St. @ M1–4.
Wiener Werkstätte objects. The Istanbul at the Jewish Museum Open noon–6pm Tue–Sun.
upper floors feature works from Closed public hols. ∑ ukrainian
institute.org
Der Blaue Reiter (artists such as
Klee, Kandinsky), the Bauhaus 3 Cooper Hewitt,
(Fein inger, Schlemmer), and Smithsonian Inevitably over shadowed by the
Die Brücke (Mies van der Rohe, Design Museum Met up the road, this cultural
Breuer). Klimt’s Portrait of Adele center, with its intriguing art
Bloch-Bauer I (1907) is the star of 2 E 91st St. Map 16 F2. Tel (212) 849- collection, is well-worth a visit.
the museum. From his “Golden 8400. q 86th St, 96th St. @ M1–4. Temporary exhibits from modern
Period”, the portrait depicts Adele Open 10am–6pm Sun–Fri (to 9pm Ukrainian artists are on the
Bloch-Bauer, a member of one of Sat). Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, second floor, while the upper
Vienna’s richest Jewish families. Dec 25. & 7 8 = - levels exhibit abstract work from
The painting was stolen by the ∑ cooperhewitt.org Alexander Archipenko, paintings
Nazis in 1938. from David Burliuk, the “father
Housed in the former mansion of Russian Futurism”, and huge
of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Soviet Socialist Realist canvases.
2 Jewish Museum this museum underwent a Built for the banker Isaac Fletcher
massive redevelopment in 1899, it is more famous for
1109 5th Ave. Map 16 F2. Tel (212) 423- project, which culminated being owned by Harry Sinclair,
3200. q 86th St, 96th St. @ M1–4.
Open 11am–5:45pm Thu–Tue in 2014. The modern galleries industrialist and scandal-prone
(to 8pm Thu, to 5:45pm Fri Mar–Nov). are now scattered oilman in the 1920s.
Closed public & Jewish hols. around the
& ^ 7 8 - = original
∑ thejewishmuseum.org staircase, with
the mansion’s
The exquisite château-like wooden
residence of Felix M. Warburg, interiors and
financier and leader of the parquet floors
Jewish community, was still intact. On
designed by C. P. H. Gilbert in the second
1908. It now houses one of the story is the
world’s largest collections of Carnegie Library,
Jewish fine and ceremonial art, with its intricate
and historical Judaica. The teak carvings. The facade of the Ukrainian Institute

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