Art
Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist Painter Who Pioneered Abstract Art
Witchy and prescient, Hilma af Klint's paintings from the early 1900s curiously combine spiritualism with an interest in evolutionary biology.
Guggenheim Museum
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News
Major Art Institutions Navigate Ties to Saudi Arabia After Disappearance of Journalist [UPDATED]
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.
In Brief
Guggenheim Museum Returns Looted Painting to a German Art Dealer’s Heirs
When Alfred Flechtheim fled Germany, an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting of his ended up in the hands of a Nazi, and eventually at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim.
Art
Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman
Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?
Art
Giacometti and Fears of Emasculation
A retrospective at the Guggenheim presents Giacometti as one of art history's great vanishers of women.
Art
The Guggenheim Calls for Greater Civility in Public Discourse While Avoiding Its Own Problems
The Guggenheim Museum’s two days of talks for its “Culture and Its Discontents” event resembled, at its best points, a mediocre rendition of Kum ba yah.
Interview
Danh Vo's "Tiny Diasporas" at the Guggenheim
Seph Rodney and Nile Davies discuss the retrospective of Danh Vo in a global context, scrutinizing the politics of belonging, objects, and history.
Art
How Pre-Columbian Art Influenced Josef Albers
The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
Art
A Playful and Prurient Performance About Pornography
In Prurience, Christopher Green asks his audience to "consider if society is in the grip of an actual addiction or a moral panic."
News
Someone Yarn-Bombed a Guggenheim Museum Toilet with Gold Crochet
The guerrilla intervention was in place for two hours during the museum's pay-what-you-wish period on Saturday.
In Brief
Fox Business Anchor Outraged at Guggenheim in Wake of Golden Toilet Offer
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.
In Brief
Trumps Wanted a van Gogh for the White House But Were Offered a Gold Toilet
When Donald and Melania Trump requested a Vincent van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim, the museum responded with a counteroffer.