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Among the highlights of the Neue Galerie's "Otto Dix" exhibition is his 1925 masterpiece Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber. Oil and tempera on plywood. Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart © 2010 Artists Rights Society, New York/Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn. The lipstick and palette will be sold at the Neue Galerie's Design Shop throughout the duration of the exhibition. All photographs courtesy of the Neue Galerie New York. Art connoisseurs and beauty mavens: if you've ever looked at a painting and wondered how you could somehow make its beauty your own, then take note. This month, the New York City museum Neue Galerie collaborated with Estée Lauder to launch a blazing fire-engine-red lipstick and Bauhaus-style mirror compact in celebration of the museum's retrospective of the works of German artist Otto Dix.

Life doesn't stop just because the economy is cratering. Life is a cabaret, old chum, for about 200 friends who helped Harvard-educated, blond, interior decorator Celerie Kemble celebrate her birthday Saturday at a performance of "Spiegeltent" on Pier 17, a bawdy revue with nudity. The beautiful and privileged guests - like Amanda Cutter Brooks, Alexa Hampton, Cynthia Rowley, Ghislaine Maxwell, Moby and Simon Hammerstein - also included reeling hedge-fund managers and investment bankers. At one point Bronson van Wyck, whose family has a Queens expressway named after it,...