Already been to MoMA and the Met? Never fear, here is a list of 5 of the most outstanding works boasted by other top art institutions in New York open to the public!
- Neu Galerie
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Gustav Klimt, Woman in Gold, 1907
All that glitters is truly gold! Visit the Neue Galerie for German and Austrian art to be stunned by masterpieces of the Vienna Secession painted by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and more. The Woman in Gold, also known as the Portrait of Lady Adele Bloch Baueur I is one of Klimt’s greatest works of his golden phase. This gilded and ornate portrait, stylistically influenced by the Art Nouveau movement, screams luxury and an underlying sensual eroticism. It is no wonder that this controversial yet captivating work of art was stolen by the Nazis in 1941.
- Brooklyn Museum
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Judy Chicago, Dinner Party, 1979
Tucked in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art of the Brooklyn Museum, a massive ceremonial banquet is laid out for 39 of the most influential and prominent women to (not) grace our history books. Regarded as the pioneering masterpiece of Feminist art, this work functions as a symbolic history of women throughout civilization. On this triangular-shaped dinner table, elaborately customized place settings tailored to each chosen woman are layed out, in addition to the 998 names of women who have also made a mark on history- spanning from prehistory to modern times. The plates emerge in higher relief as the timeline approaches the present, a clever allegory of the trajectory of feminist progress.
- Frick Madison/collection
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Jean-Honore Fragonard, The progress of Love, 1771-72
Four large canvases painted by the French Rococo Painter Jean-Honore Fragonard stand as the crown jewel of the Frick Collection. The title of this series says it all, with each painting charting out consecutive installments of a titillating love story between an amorous couple. Commissioned for Madame Du Barry, King Louis XV’s mistress, these salacious works were considered too scandalous to be put up in her infamous pleasure pavilion. Set in the dense foliage of a lush garden, the exquisite mise en scene serves as a clever metaphor for the literalized progress of love between the two spellbound lovers. - Whitney Museum
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Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu, 1914
This large-scale oil painting is the only Parisian masterpiece of the Great American painter, Edward Hopper. An accomplished precursor to scenes of urban alienation set in the city of New York, this gloomy painting tied together by a stony blue-gray palette features a peculiar assortment of individuals gathered together in a Parisian cafe. Completely absorbed in their worlds, it is a perfect allegory of melancholy, pulling the curtain behind the phantasmic spectacle of fin de siecle Paris that his contemporary counterparts such as Henri Toulouse Lautrec and Auguste Renoir designed to represent. - The Guggenheim
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Jackson Pollock, Enchanted Forest, 1947
Flock to the Guggenheim to behold the Enchanted Forest, a mainstay of the museum’s stringently selective permanent collection. Painted by Jackson Pollock, the titan of the Abstract Expressionism Movement, Enchanted Forest perfectly encapsulates his signature style of splattering and dripping painting across an unprimed canvas spread on the floor of his studio. Unlike other artists of his time, Pollock was one of the first to use his entire body in the process of painting, creating a final product consisting of interlaced traces of black, white, gold, and the red paint that reflected the activity of the artist around the canvas.