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Hilma af Klint Breaks Records at the Guggenheim Museum

by Hakim Bishara April 22, 2019April 23, 2019

The survey of the late Swedish abstract painter has drawn 600,000 visitors, increased museum memberships, and broke another record in catalogue sales.

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Pulled into Robert Mapplethorpe’s Vortex of Voyeurism

by Zachary Small March 28, 2019March 28, 2019

“What’s S&M?” I overhear a woman asking her husband in the exhibition. “The artist says here that it stands for sex and magic, but this set up doesn’t look very magical.”

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Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages

by John Yau November 25, 2018August 25, 2021

Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.

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Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist Painter Who Pioneered Abstract Art

by Zachary Small October 23, 2018August 25, 2021

Witchy and prescient, Hilma af Klint’s paintings from the early 1900s curiously combine spiritualism with an interest in evolutionary biology.

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Major Art Institutions Navigate Ties to Saudi Arabia After Disappearance of Journalist [UPDATED]

by Jasmine Weber October 17, 2018October 18, 2018

The Smithsonian, Sotheby’s, and landmark institutions across NYC are under pressure to address their financial connections to the Saudi Arabian government in the wake of the suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

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A Playful and Prurient Performance About Pornography

by Elisa Wouk Almino March 20, 2018

In Prurience, Christopher Green asks his audience to “consider if society is in the grip of an actual addiction or a moral panic.”

A guerrilla intervention in the Guggenheim Museum's fourth floor bathroom (photo provided to Hyperallergic by anonymous source)
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Someone Yarn-Bombed a Guggenheim Museum Toilet with Gold Crochet

by Kurt McVey March 7, 2018March 7, 2018

The guerrilla intervention was in place for two hours during the museum’s pay-what-you-wish period on Saturday.

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Fox Business Anchor Outraged at Guggenheim in Wake of Golden Toilet Offer

by Benjamin Sutton January 30, 2018

From a slew of negative reviews on Yelp and Facebook to a Fox anchor calling on chief curator Nancy Spector to resign, the backlash to revelations that the Guggenheim offered the Trumps a gold toilet is many-pronged.

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Trumps Wanted a van Gogh for the White House But Were Offered a Gold Toilet

by Elisa Wouk Almino January 25, 2018

When Donald and Melania Trump requested a Vincent van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim, the museum responded with a counteroffer.

The interior of the Guggenheim museum in New York City (photo by Wallygva, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Hawking Audio Guides at the Guggenheim

by Joseph Keckler December 4, 2017December 4, 2017

In this piece from his new nonfiction collection, Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World: Portraits and Revelations, Joseph Keckler revisits his stint as an audio guide salesman.

Still from "Sanlidong 三里洞" (2006) (courtesy Lin Xin 林鑫)
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Documenting the Many Contradictions of Contemporary China

by Benjamin Sutton November 20, 2017

The Guggenheim’s series Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017, curated by Ai Weiwei and Wang Fen, gathers documentaries by Chinese artists and filmmakers.

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Ryan McNamara’s Populist Approach to Dance Falls Short at the Guggenheim

by Rennie McDougall October 27, 2017October 27, 2017

Commedia dell’arte packed less punch, in part because of the formal space of the Guggenheim and McNamara’s status as an art-world darling.

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