Sunday, July 16, 2006
Neue Galerie's Most Expensive Painting
The most expensive painting in the world is now on display at the Neue Galerie in New York. "Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer" will be on show through to the 18th of September.
The museum has also had to announce that they will be opening an extra day each week (Wednesdays from 12 till 4pm) to keep up with the high demand of visitors. The star of the exhibition (Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I) is surely attracting a crowd that doesn't usually spend much time in art galleries. The gold beauty must be hearing comments like "Oh, that's not worth $135 million" and "What a waste of money", but at least she is getting people looking at art.
>> Art Museums, Famous Artists ¶ 10:47 PM
The museum has also had to announce that they will be opening an extra day each week (Wednesdays from 12 till 4pm) to keep up with the high demand of visitors. The star of the exhibition (Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I) is surely attracting a crowd that doesn't usually spend much time in art galleries. The gold beauty must be hearing comments like "Oh, that's not worth $135 million" and "What a waste of money", but at least she is getting people looking at art.
>> Art Museums, Famous Artists ¶ 10:47 PM
No doubt you are correct in assuming that many will be coming to the Neue Galerie for the 135 million Klimt beauty but they will keeping coming back for the Viennese fare in the Cafe Zabriskie (their OLD VIENNA cafe). When it comes to lush displays no picture can match the Viennese pastry and accompaniments on display there.
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