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Lauren Flanigan is known for her commitment to offbeat, challenging roles. In the music of the Weimar period, she has found an ideal match for her taste and talent. Flanigan tells us about the choices she has made in her career, and in preparing her Café Sabarsky performance.

"Each work is a self-portrait of sorts, rendering the exact expression but not necessarily the artist’s own exact features.

"Had Messerschmidt not experienced his mental torment his art might never have strayed into such radical and 'modern" expression; he probably would have been relegated to a passing mention, if that, in art history surveys." [

"Tucked inside the Neue Galerie, a German and Austrian art gallery, is Café Sabarsky.

Writes Claire O'Neill, blogger for NPR's photo blog "The Picture Show", about Messerschmidt: "The following sculptures by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, on the other hand ... Well, I'm somewhat frightened.

"From the spontaneous drawings of asylum patients to the work of van Gogh or Goya, few artists offer such tantalizing clues to their tortured inner world as Franz Xaver Messerschmidt." [Read more]

With their warmth, wit, and winning sophistication, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano have taken the New York cabaret scene by storm. The award-winning husband-and-wife team answered our questions about what inspires them.

The Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Magazine selects the Neue Galerie as one of its "10 More Reasons" to visit New York, proclaiming the museum to be "truly one of the city’s hidden museum treasures." [

Federico de Vera has designed three exhibitions for the Neue Galerie, including the current Messerschmidt show.

Writes Ariella Budick, "The small show’s wallop vastly exceeds its size.