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August is the final month for the free summer film series "Weimar on Screen." Shown Mondays at 4 p.m., the series focuses on masterpieces of early 20th century cinema that explore the complex social implications of

In advance of the publication of their review of the Otto Dix exhibition, The New York Review of Books posted an online slide show of works from the show, accompanied by excerpts from the article.

British travel show "Monumental Adventure" aims to give viewers an insider's guide to New York. Their new website makes clips from their show available to the public, including a segment they produced in 2008 about the Neue Galerie.

Writes FT arts critic Ariella Budick, "What makes Dix so bewitching is his merciless, mud-seeking eye combined with the refined precision of his hand.

Distinguished art critic Dore Ashton writes in her review, "[Dix's] extensive series of prints and drawings, particularly those of trench warfare, are undeniably among his most valuable contributions to art history." [

Columbia Daily Spectator writer Maria Castex says of Dix's 1924 portfolio War, "the small scale, the darkness of the ink, and the violence with which the figures and landscapes are rendered...forces viewers to really focu

"The painter himself said he was neither for war nor against war. Instead he provided a kind of modified reportage, Peters said, that is "a reflection of war...

"As the preeminent showplace of modern German art in America, the Neue Galerie continues through Otto Dix its mission of bringing the greatest German artists to America not as curiosities but as illuminating and relevant prisms through which w

"Though raw in content and at times appearance, Dix's work should not be taken as loose and expressive.