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Let’s Talk Art: Fischli and Weiss and Their Popular Opposites
“How did they balance being so funny and being such respected artists?” This question was recently posed by a visitor in reference to Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, a retrospective of...
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Getting to Know Zaha
Something that has always amazed me about Foucault was his awareness of the limits of his own expertise, despite the breadth of his knowledge. The lesson is not necessarily to limit what you speak of,...
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On the MAP: Artist Paul Ramírez Jonas’s Sunrises and New MAP Artist...
Waiting for the Sun You could be forgiven for momentarily mistaking MAP artist Paul Ramírez Jonas’s video installation Another Day (2003–) for a train schedule. Indeed, that is the intended visual...
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Creating Connections: A Q&A with Guggenheim Curator Xiaoyu Weng
Xiaoyu Weng is the co-curator, with Hou Hanru, of the second exhibition from the Guggenheim’s Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative. The initiative is a research, curatorial, and...
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Extending the Museum Experience with Virtual Reality
Imagine you’re in the middle of the Guggenheim Museum, and you’re invited by an educator to sit on the floor in a circle with other visitors. The terrazzo floor beneath you is refreshingly cool; you...
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Recent Works by Emerging Artists Join the Guggenheim’s Collection
An undulating sculpture that symbolically melds human flesh with industrial materials; a stunning abstract work that subtly comments on the stifling of African American voices; a painting whose mythic...
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Art and Geography
Art and human geography have long been intertwined. As early as fourteen thousand years ago, people scratched marks into rocks that appear to be at once art and cartography. When landscape painting...
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How Curators and Artists Worked Together to Shape the Guggenheim’s Photo-Poetics
The exhibition Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, on view at the Guggenheim Museum through March 27, features ten contemporary artists working in the field of photography—all of whom are represented in the...
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Designing the Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Medallion
It’s easy to overlook the large circular bronze medallion set in the floor just inside the main entrance of the Guggenheim Museum. Located by the revolving doors as you enter from Fifth Avenue, the...
View ArticleJoy, Suspense, and the Way Things Go
“Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one!” This excited countdown came from a little boy at the Guggenheim Museum a few days ago. He was watching a film that may well be the best-known work of...
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On the MAP: Two MAP Artists Confront Issues of Immigration and Corporate...
Addressing Agribusiness in Latin America MAP artist Minerva Cuevas, whose work was recently on view in Museo Jumex’s presentation of Under the Same Sun (Bajo un mismo sol), makes artworks that...
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Let’s Talk Art: Museumgoers Make Discoveries in the Guggenheim’s Galleries
At any given time, the Guggenheim generally has multiple exhibitions on view in its various galleries, with work by contemporary and modern artists often filling adjacent spaces. As the museum’s...
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The Atlas of Differences Intact: Ethnographic Dwellings in Contemporary Art...
In his 1988 book The Predicament of Culture[1. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture (Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 120.], James Clifford...
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Hilla Rebay’s Library at Franton Court
After leaving her 13-year post as the Guggenheim’s first director, Hilla Rebay made her 14.5-acre Westport, Connecticut estate, Franton Court, her permanent home. The estate, named in honor of Rebay’s...
View ArticleHere, Kitty, Kitty: Fischli and Weiss’s Büsi Returns to Times Square
It was Friday, February 5, and it had almost struck midnight in Duffy Square, the little patch in front of TKTS’s red steps in the middle of Times Square. Electronic billboards surrounded the area,...
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Connecting Wikipedia with the Guggenheim
Wikipedia is the nonprofit effort of a volunteer-led community that takes a surprisingly unhurried and curious approach to creating what is, in essence, a handmade encyclopedia. However, that...
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How to Work Better: Making a Mural on Houston Street
If you happened to be walking along New York’s Houston Street at the end of January, you might have noticed that among the busy street’s many distracting sights stood a multi-story brick wall painted...
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Ephemera from the Early Career of Artist David Weiss
The Guggenheim Museum Archives is a rich resource of ephemera that documents artists’ careers through exhibition announcements, brochures, catalogues, flyers, posters, and other printed materials...
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Illustrating the Guggenheim in the New Year: Part 5
The beginning of the New Year is the traditional time to take stock, do some self-reflection—and celebrate good things to come. With all this in mind, we asked five illustrators to visually complete...
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On the MAP: A New Exhibition and MAP’s Many Spaces
Announcing the Next MAP Exhibition On April 29, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present MAP’s third exhibition, focused on the Middle East and North Africa. Organized by curator Sara Raza, But a...
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