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Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick, a white woman with brown hair wearing a black dress standing in a gallery with colorful artwork Who NEU? For more than five years (and hundreds of posts), Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick's blog has been keeping members and friends informed of the ‘backstory' behind all that is happening at the NEU.

From the Director.

Blog posts:

  • Neuberger Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick comments on a large format reproduction of the Holt Broadside.

    backstory: Origin stories

    Our newest exhibition, The Declaration Distributed: Westchester County’s Holt Broadside of 1776, is an origin story… an origin story of the ways in which one sheet paper spread the word of New York’s July 9, 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence. What I want to share with you today, however, is the origin story of the exhibition. 

  • Detail from the Holt Broadside, printed text on yellowed paper

    backstory: New York’s Declaration

    Big weekend coming up, with lots to do to celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary. Fireworks. Tall ships. And over here at the Neuberger on Saturday, we’re opening The Declaration Distributed: Westchester County’s Holt Broadside of 1776.

  • Graduates throwing caps in the air

    backstory: Milestones

    Well, the time has come: last kid graduates from high school. 

  • A large soccer ball shaped sculpture, white with black squiggly designs

    backstory: It’s sporting

    First, yay Knicks!

    Then, the art world and professional sports don’t often overlap, but here’s a connection we thought was kind of interesting.

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