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The Turbulent History of Global Chinese Art

The Guggenheim Museum’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the conceptual and performance practices that brought Chinese artists into the discourse of global contemporary art.

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Guggenheim Pulls Three Works from Upcoming Show After Outcry Over Animal Abuse [UPDATED]

The works by Peng Yu and Sun Yuan, Huang Yong Ping, and Xu Bing were the focus of a petition that garnered more than 600,000 signatures in the past week.

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PETA Accuses Guggenheim of Catering to the "Twisted Whims" of Animal Abusers

The animal rights organization is calling on the museum to exclude two works from its upcoming survey of Chinese contemporary art.

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Guggenheim Accused of Supporting Animal Cruelty in New Exhibition

A petition is calling for the removal of three works, including an installation of live lizards and insects and a video of a performance involving pit bulls running on treadmills, from the forthcoming Art and China After 1989.

Art

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.

Art

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.