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Article: A Flawless New Museum And Viennese Coffee.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2001
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
Of the many reasons why everyone--everyone, that is, with a keen interest in art, architecture and design--will want to visit and revisit the Neue Galerie New York, the city's new museum devoted to early 20th-century German and Austrian art, not the least is the building itself, at 1048 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 86th Street). This six-story mansion, designed by Carrere and Hastings, the architects of the New York Public Library, dates from 1914; its design is a Beaux Arts version of Louis XIII elegance. The architect responsible for its current restoration and transformation into a public museum is Annabelle Selldorf, and the result ...
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