The private museum was founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronald Lauder in memory of his friend, art dealer Serge Sabarsky, who shared his passion for German and Austrian art and design in the 1890s and 1940s.
The museum continued the tradition of the Museum of Non-Figurative Art, the first of its kind, which Solomon Guggenheim opened in the late 1930s in a specially rented apartment in Manhattan.
The museum’s founder, wealthy heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney became interested in art after visiting Europe in the early twentieth century.
Entrepreneur Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) has amassed one of the most outstanding collections of Old Masters in the world, which without exaggeration contains virtually everything, including works by Bellini, Raphael
There are many venues in New York that deal with contemporary art practices, but the New Museum is perhaps the best in this sense.
