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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:

  • 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.

  • Large gray egg-shaped stone sculpture in a field.

    backstory: Art outdoors

    Twenty-five years ago, British artist Andy Goldsworthy started his Three Cairns project.

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