Guggenheim Museum New York or Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is one of the world’s great modern art collections.
The striking modernist building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
You can walk up the inviting spiral rotunda, or take the elevator to the top and unwind. It’s a sly metaphor on the modernist museum experience.
The building and collection can give you the feeling of walking through an art history book come alive.
It’s one of the grand museums of Museum Mile.
In Modernist tradition, the Guggenheim also hosts and even commissions contemporary dance.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie, Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, Africa Center 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇵🇷
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
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Pia Camil: Here Comes the Sun
Friday, November 8, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ This Guggenheim 60th Anniversary commission by a Mexican artist is a wonderful performance based on Lygia Pape’s ‘Divisor’ (1969) that shines a bright light on people at the Guggenheim Museum
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MARCH
Contemporary Art
By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection contrasts Arte Povera (Italian art of the 1960s-70s) with contemporary art to show how artists leverage the technical and social movements of their time to push artistic boundaries; at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from March 15, 2024 to January 12, 2025; guggenheim.org 🇺🇸 🇮🇹
NOVEMBER
French Modern Art
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930 explores the impact of the vibrant abstract art movement on the other arts; at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from November 8, 2024 to March 9, 2025; guggenheim.org 🇫🇷 🇵🇹
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Guggenheim Museum New York
1071 Fifth Avenue
(between 88th & 89th St)
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Subways
(4)(5)(6) to 86th St
(N)(Q)(R) to 86th St
In Spring 2024, Mondays and Saturdays 4pm – 5:30pm are Pay-What-You-Wish.
Exhibitions
Looking at exhibitions at the Guggenheim, it’s worth remembering that the Modern Art period was a time of transition from the strict codes of the past, to the freer forms of today. It was a time of great experimentation as artists broke down the boundaries of art. Transitions in life are the most memorable moments and there is a lot of memorable art here.
Thannhauser Collection shows masters of modern art. It’s the collection of a famous Jewish art dealer who had to flee Germany during World War II, first to Paris, and then to New York City. Those art collections are often in the news. This is one of them. It’s amazing. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Pablo Picasso’s “Woman with Yellow Hair” (Femme aux cheveaux jaunes) from 1931 stands out. It’s one of striking paintings of his young mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It’s surprising simple and expressive at the same time.
About The Guggenheim
The collection was originally Solomon R. Guggenheim’s personal collection. He began showing it to the public from his apartment in the Plaza Hotel. The museum was founded in 1939 under the direction of German artist Hilla von Rebay.
The Guggenheim fortune was made in mining and smelting, including Colorado silver and Alaskan gold.
The museum moved to the iconic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959. You can walk up the spiral ramps or take the elevator to the top an unwind.
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