The New York City Opera chorus and orchestra broke out in song outside the Guggenheim Museum today to protest artistic director George Steel's simultaneous announcement that the company will leave Lincoln Center, a decision that likely will cost them their jobs. "We shall not, we shall not be moved," sang the musicians, led Read More
Artists generally like to have their works displayed in major museums. So when 130 artists, curators and academics signed a letter last month asking that their works not be shown by the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi until conditions improved for workers building the facility, it drew widespread attention to the cause.
But the protesters may be getting Read More
"I'm sorry, we're out of Champagne," the bartender told a striking woman who stood before him in the Guggenheim's stirring atrium, where the grand white gallery ramps rise in curling white eddies--all leading to Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic skylight. A sampling of uptown glitterati (and the highest echelon of museum board members) had gathered for Read More
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Public Art Fund have taken the unusual step of commissioning works by the same young British artist this fall, a man little known here. "Intervals: Ryan Gander" opens at the Guggenheim Friday, Oct. 1, while the artist's public sculpture in Central Park--or, rather, the ruins of one--went on Read More
An average Joe discovers a $200 million trove of Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale, struggling art vendors protest new regulations, and flip-flop wearing bargain hunters clamor for Lawrence Salander's belongings. This week in art news: don't forget the little guy. 1. YouTube Play Generates Buzz and FrustrationThe jury for the Guggenheim's Read More
There's nothing quite like gazing at an Impressionist exhibit to the mellow sound of "Mommmm, can we go yet?" Any parent who has tried to instill love of art and culture into children knows it can be a challenge. Luckily, many New York City museums have special programs aimed for children.
Marilyn Manson takes on the role of fine artist, a Velazquez parades as basement junk, and Louis Vuitton purses and porn are reconfigured into fine art with varying results. This week in art news: Come as you're not! 1. Ukranian Billionaire Selects Art-Prize NomineesVictor Punchuk's PinchukArtCentre announced the nominees for his $100,000 Generation Read More
In 2009, its 50th anniversary year, the Guggenheim Museum had its most visitors ever: 1,164,098.
The Times attributes this in part to the Kandinsky retrospective currently hanging, which currently holds the museum's attendance record for a single exhibit.
"Perhaps no other artist has been more closely linked to the history of the Solomon Read More
As any award enthusiast knows, award-show spectacles—carefully choreographed productions that inspire at least as much excitement as the recipients of the actual awards—are achievements in their own right.
In this spirit, the artist Rob Pruitt has inaugurated The First Annual Art Awards. Working from the recommendations of a 400-person Nominating Council, he Read More
The Guggenheim turns fifty today and is offering free admission to celebrate. There will be Guggenheim memorabilia, ranging from free to not free, such as Guggenheim cookies and Guggenheim jewelry by Harry Winston. Characteristically, there will also be as much Kandinsky as possible--not one but two exhibitions currently hanging Read More
The Four Seasons Restaurant knows how to keep the party going. On Wednesday, July 15th, the NYC landmark feted its 50th birthday again, this time with the Guggenheim Museum, also celebrating its 50th.
Guests, including Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and author Michael Gross, sipped champagne and snacked on rabbit sausage and sushi before dinner, in celebration Read More
Hey, it's Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday! In honor of the "greatest American architect of all time," who would be a sprite 142 years old if he had not died in April 1959, Google and the Guggenheim are partnering up for a design competition. Starting today, June 8, they'll accept submissions for "Design It: Shelter Read More
The New York Times reports that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is getting a $1 million award for its coming exhibition “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989.”
The National Endowment for the Humanities is the gift-giver and will fund the exhibition, which will display loaned objects from European and Japanese museums, Read More
Parisian-born sculptor Louise Bourgeois’ life and career have been remarkable. Born in 1911, four years after Picasso painted Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Bourgeois came of age during a time when “avant-garde” had yet to become the empty boast of PR men. Influenced by the murkier tangents of Surrealism, Ms. Bourgeois, who studied at the École du Read More
The recent Louis Vuitton party celebrating the final day of Richard Prince’s exhibition at the Guggenheim was, by all accounts, well-attended. Arguably, one of the main draws was the opportunity to pre-order those spring collection bags Mr. Prince designed with the French impedimenta-maker. Denise Rich, Helen Schifter and Lizzie Tisch were reportedly among the guests Read More
