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A thirty-nine-foot banner was unfurled in the rotunda of a sparsely-attended Guggenheim Museum this evening, the latest action carried out by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Front (G.U.L.F.) activist group.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will be adding a second location in New York, the Art Newspaper reported. A job listing on the Guggenheim's website containing all the information mentioned in the report seems to be the source.
Art
Let's start by saying, just in case it's not obvious, that there's something nearly impossible about conceptualizing and mounting a show as wide in its thematic and geographic scope as Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo León de la Barra.
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An extensive report in the New York Times today dives into the Guggenheim's longstanding bid for a franchise in the Finnish capital of Helsinki, detailing the rocky reception to the project since it was first proposed in 2011.
Art
The Guggenheim Museum was filled with noise on Monday evening during "PAAAAAAroooooooooooole in Libertà Futuriste (Futurist Wwwwwwoooooords-in-Freedom)," an eccentric program that breathed new life into an extensive survey of Futurist art that's been on view since February.
Art
Bad things can happen to almost any art. Casino impresario Steve Wynn famously stuck an elbow through his Picasso while bragging about the high price he was about to get for his trophy canvas, and a clumsy visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum managed to trip on a staircase and take out a whole row of i
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Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
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At 6:45 pm ET yesterday evening, a handheld bell sounded in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, signaling the second protest action in as many months from the Global Ultra Luxury Faction, or G.U.L.F.
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A spoof Guggenheim website, globalguggenheim.org, went live this morning with a satirical "Sustainable Design Competition" for the museum's embattled Abu Dhabi branch.
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The OWS Illuminator, that infamous visual symbol of Occupy Wall Street, joined Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (aka G.U.L.F.) yesterday in their fight for workers's rights on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Art
The exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, presently on view at the Guggenheim, is the first important museum survey of work from this seminal utopian Modernist movement seen in New York since Futurism at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961.
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A few moments ago, we received the following statement from G.U.L.F. (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction), which is a direct response to clarifications by the Guggenheim Foundation on claims made by G.U.L.F.