‘It’s Personal’: Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and Max Hollein on the Met’s Groundbreaking Merger With the Neue Galerie
Dodie Kazanjian | Vogue | 14th May 2026
Successful museums rarely merge. This merger of New York’s Met and the Neue Galerie is described as “one of the most significant institutional partnerships in American museum history”. Neue Galerie, with its famous collection of early 20th-century Austrian and German art, brings strength to an area where the Met is (relatively) weak. In return the Met appears to be offering longevity. Says Neue Galerie’s (not immortal) founder “I want to make sure … the Neue Galerie will stay the Neue Galerie.”