“Not only Vienna’s finest writers, but its painters and psychologists, even its art historians, were preoccupied with the problem of the nature of the individual in a disintegrating society,” writes Carl E. Schorske in the opening chapter of his 1980 analysis of an era, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. “Out of this preoccupation arose Austria’s contribution to a new view of man … that richer, but more dangerous and mercurial creature, psychological man.” In the years leading up to W.W. I, artists such as Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Gustav Klimt—each dangerous and mercurial on canvases that probed the subconscious—rose to prominence. As part of the Brunch with Bob series—and in tandem with an exhibition on the subject—the foundation’s co-associate director and former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello will discuss this fascinating era with Ronald S. Lauder, the co-founder of New York’s Neue Galerie. Be sure to buy tickets ahead of time. —Elena Clavarino