At a visit this afternoon to the Neue Galerie, I was stunned by how beautiful Gustav Klimt’s painting Adele Bloch-Bauer I is in person. I am a Klimt fan, but I don’t think a painting has ever taken my breath away like this one. Prints simply don’t do the shimmering three-dimensional painting justice. If you’re anywhere near New York City, it is certainly worth the trip to the Upper East Side to see this, and other, fantastic works by Klimt.

Click here to read how the Neue Galerie was able to acquire this painting in June 2006.