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The Heavy Metal Symbolism of the Salon Rose+Croix
A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th.
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An Enveloping Soundscape Conceived in the 1970s Is Realized for the First Time
Inside Doug Wheeler's Synthetic Desert, the traffic of New York City, the din of the museum, the chaotic noise of everyday life — it all evaporates.
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A Display of Sweat, Ants, and Bacteria at the Guggenheim
By ushering into the museum elements that are conventionally seen as unsanitary, Anicka Yi explores the "biopolitics of the senses."
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The Guggenheim Restores Its First Web Art Commission
"Brandon" was completed in 1999, and it is based on the rape and murder of 21-year-old trans man Brandon Teena in Humboldt, Nebraska.
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An Irreverent Performance of Naked Dancers Dressed as Iconic Buildings
In Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa's performance "A Brief History of Architecture in Guatemala" at the Guggenheim, the artist invited us to consider why we revere iconic architecture in the first place.
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New Art from China Renders Local Histories Fantastic, Futuristic, and Bloody
Each of these thoughtful, well-realized works offers an investigation into global politics, the contemporary as historical, and environmental collapse, with room to laugh, rest, and think in between.
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Agnes Martin’s Contemporary Sublime
This uninterrupted stroll through nearly six decades of work reminds one of how few other artists from her generation sustained such long, capable, trajectories in art-making.
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Opening Up to Agnes Martin’s Pure Abstraction
A retrospective of the artist's work at the Guggenheim Museum is worth seeing on more than one occasion, and it will probably appear differently each time.
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Anti-Columbus Day Activist Targets Guggenheim's Gold Toilet
A protester took it upon themselves to mark one of the most glaring symbols of contemporary art excess and decadence — Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet at the Guggenheim Museum — with a "Decolonize This Place" sticker.
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A Pair of Performances Exposes the Politics of How Museums Operate
The most conceptually compelling work of art in the Guggenheim’s But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa is also its least visible.
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Waiting to Pee in “America,” the Gold Toilet at the Guggenheim
While waiting in line to pee in “America,” a toilet cast in 18-karat gold and installed in a Guggenheim Museum bathroom, I ran into my friend Fritz Mead, who lives in a shack he built himself out of scrap wood in a backyard next to a skate bowl he also built himself.
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A Survey of Art from the Middle East and North Africa Puts Geometry Before Politics
Taking its title, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, from a painting in the exhibition by the exiled Iranian artist Rokni Haeirzadeh, the third edition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative focuses on contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa.