NEW YORK NY.- The New Museum presents “Ostalgia,” an exhibition that brings together the work of fifty-six artists from twenty countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Republics, and parts of Western Europe. The Multi-floor exhibition is on view from July 14–September 25, 2011. The exhibition takes its title from the German word ostalgie, a term that emerged in the 1990s to describe a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Twenty years ago, a process of dissolution began, leading to the break-up of the Soviet Union. From the Baltic republics to the Balkans, from Central Europe to Central Asia, entire regions and nations were reconfigured, their constitutions rewritten, their borders redrawn. Combining seminal figures and emerging artists, “Ostalgia” looks at the art produced in and about some of these countries. Mixing private confessions and collective traumas, th