NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
To celebrate the completion of the restoration of its landmark Frank Lloyd Wright building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will open its doors for free admission October 30 from noon to 8 p.m.. Audio tours will be free of...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
By Sanford Schwartz Louise Bourgeois an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, June 27–September 28, 2008; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 26, 2008– January 25, 2009; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., February 26–May 17, 2009. Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 by Louise...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
NEW YORK.- Fifty years after the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic work, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will celebrate the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright, on view from May 15 to August 23, 2009. The exhibition will examine Wright's vision for harmonious living through inventive spatial constructions
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Known and respected as a documentary photographer, Catherine Opie catches the people and moments we all might miss as we race through our lives - an empty highway, a lesbian couple, street corner shrines, a lone surfer.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
NEW YORK.- The Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation today unanimously confirmed the appointment of Richard Armstrong, effective November 4, to the position of Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Mr. Armstrong, 59, has been the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh since 1996 and announced his resignation in
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
NEW YORK.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will officially mark the completion of its three-year restoration project with a ceremony officiated by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who will switch-on a site-specific illumination of the building created by artist Jenny Holzer and commissioned in honor of the restoration's major benefactor Peter B. Lewis. Holzer's work, entitled,
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Phoenix Art Museum has hired Sara Cochran as curator of modern and contemporary art, the museum announced Wednesday.
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
(TrendHunter.com) New York’s celebrated Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, with its distinctive architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was renovated in 2007. Fragments of Wright’s last masterpiece were saved from that…
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
BROOKVILLE, NY.- Remarkable artists and innovators, Ilya Bolotowsky and Esphyr Slobodkina both played an important role in the development of abstract art in the United States. Displaced by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent Civil War of 1918, Bolotowsky and Slobodkina arrived in New York City in the 1920s. They studied art at the National Academy of Design: Bolotowsky
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
NEW YORK.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced today that it has been selected for a $1 million Chairman's Special Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its upcoming exhibition, The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia , 18601989. The Guggenheim is the only museum to receive the Chairman's Special Award for an 's Historical and
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
NEWPORT BEACH.- The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) has announced that Karen Moss, the Museum's curator of collections and director of public programs, has been named deputy director for exhibitions and programs. Moss will oversee the museum's curatorial and education departments. The Museum has also appointed Sarah Bancroft as curator. Bancroft comes to OCMA
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has commissioned the New York firm Asymptote Architects to design and implement a new Guggenheim Museum in cyberspace
Luxist (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Filed under: Jewelry I simply LOVE this collection of jewelry! Aptly named Restoration Rocks, each piece contains fragments of Frank Lloyd Wright's historic Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that were set aside and saved during the 2007 restoration process. In the hands of jeweler Cara Tilker the little bits of concrete become wearable works of art that, due to the very nature of the material, are each...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum presents an exhibition featuring 39 important artworks from the late 1960s and early 1970s that were recently acquired from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, one of the world's foremost collectors of American and European contemporary art. Composed of works by an international roster of 16 artists, this acquisition substantially
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The Center of International Cultural Exchange, Ministry of Culture, P.R.C. will present the Guggenheim's highly-acclaimed exhibition "Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing during the Olympics from August 19 to September 2, 2008 as an official event of the cultural Olympiad.
