"Vienna 1900: Style and Identity"

Joining the Gugg's "Great Upheaval" exhibit and MoMA's "Picasso: Guitars," this Neue Galerie survey looks back to a formative period and place in modern art: turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. The multicultural seat of Austria-Hungary's aged polyglot empire, Vienna in 1900 was a hotbed of changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality, as well as the birthplace of psychology. This show aims to draw the connections between those larger developments, and the ways in which they were expressed in the fine and decorative arts of the time. Works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele are on view, along with furniture and fashion by Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.