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Guggenheim Museum

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Color Field, Then and Now

by David Carrier March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

I fear that the visual culture in which these works were admired is now one of those distant “you had to be there” moments, which are impossible to reconstruct.

Posted inArt

Simone Leigh’s Debris of Silence

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 31, 2019July 30, 2019

Simone Leigh’s work, on view at the Guggenheim Museum, is inhibiting in a particularly difficult way: it doesn’t seduce; it doesn’t explain, it doesn’t rely on interpretation; it doesn’t care what I think.

Posted inNews

Guggenheim Workers Successfully Vote to Unionize

Avatar photo by Zachary Small June 28, 2019March 8, 2023

More than 90 workers will join Local 30, a union that includes installers and maintenance workers at New York’s MoMA PS1.

Posted inSponsored

Reflections on Artistic License

by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum June 18, 2019June 18, 2019

Join the Guggenheim Museum for a series of conversations with the six artist-curators of Artistic License on select Tuesdays from June 18–December 17, 6:30 pm.

Posted inIn Brief

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.

Posted inArt

Pulled into Robert Mapplethorpe’s Vortex of Voyeurism

Avatar photo 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.”

Posted inArt

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.

Posted inArt

Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist Painter Who Pioneered Abstract Art

Avatar photo 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.

Posted inNews

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

Avatar photo 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.

Posted inArt

A Playful and Prurient Performance About Pornography

Avatar photo 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.

Posted inIn Brief

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

Avatar photo 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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