Performance
Picasso at His Most Surreal
Last night and tonight, the Guggenheim is staging two special, performance-like readings of Pablo Picasso’s obscure play, “Desire Caught by the Tail,” as part of the museum’s Works & Process series.
Guggenheim Museum
Announcement
Go for stillspotting but Stay for the Bronx: 10 Great Things to See
This weekend, Oct 13-14, The Guggenheim Museum will be hosting the fifth and final edition in the stillspotting nyc [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/] series, stillspotting nyc: bronx [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/visit/bronx/]. For this installment, Guggenheim has teamed up with Charlie
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The Guggenheim and Hyperallergic Present: stillspotting Bronx Art Adventure
On Saturday, October 13, Hyperallergic will partner with The Guggenheim Museum to host a day trip to the Bronx to experience the museum’s final stillspotting nyc event, “Audiogram [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/visit/bronx/]” Following the interactive audio experience, join Hyperallergic’s edi
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Rineke Dijkstra: Contemporary Photographer or Old Master?
It’s very rare that museum directors or curators, when introducing a new show to a room full of writers and critics, say anything remotely thought-provoking or profound. Introducing the Rineke Dijkstra mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim, however, the museum director Richard Armstrong made a
News
Picasso the Playwright
Picasso is renowned and celebrated for his paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and even stage designs. But it turns out that Picasso also wrote — two plays and hundreds of poems, to be exact, mostly during the 1940s and '50s.
Art
Staten Island and the Man Who Really Invented the Telephone
Sounds scratched from the urban streets or imagined for the world under the water are mixed with a story of both fact and fiction in Telettrofono, presented by stillspotting nyc on Staten Island.
News
Helsinki Says “No” to the Guggenheim
Members of Helsinki's City Board have rejected the long-standing proposal to build a branch of the Guggenheim Museum on the city's waterfront. Eight of the board's fifteen members voted today against furthering the proposal to the City Council for consideration.
Performance
A Thirst for the Conceptual
All I could think about was water. I was late and overdressed; the auditorium was ungodly hot, and I was thirsty. What is more, the Berlin-based artist, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, had, as though anticipating me, deliberately placed an empty water bottle on the seat next to the one I slipped into.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unfinished masterpiece, artists on Facebook, Guggenheim's free online catalogues, Okwui Enwezor lectures on art and civic imagination, Russian space, nasty ancient graffiti and much more …
Art
Weekly Art Rx
Time flies when you're looking at art. This week's prescription features a few shows that are closing (already!), including Jeff Wall and Maurizio Cattelan.
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Announcement
[Sponsor] Guggenheim Artist Talks
Meet and hear contemporary artists Yael Bartana (Tue, Jan 24, 6:30 pm) and Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Tue, Jan 31, 6:30 pm). After each program, enjoy a private reception with the artist. Tickets for each program are $10, $7 Guggenheim members and free for students with valid ID and RSVP. For more in
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3 iPad Apps Recreate the Museum Experience...Almost
MANILA, Philippines — Over the past few months, I’ve watched with envy as stunning museum shows have gone up in my old haunts in Los Angeles and New York. Thankfully, in recent months three museums have released exhibition-related apps for the iPad and iPhone. To see how they stack up, I reviewed th