Julie Mehretu’s new series Grey Area, now up at the Guggenheim, is a diary to place, the inevitability of it shaping you, and in this case, the work that comes out of it. When initially granted a commission by Deutsche Bank Series and Guggenheim in 2007, Mehretu proposed six large-scale paintings, each dedicated to urban [...]
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Mining the Past in the Present: Haunted at the Guggenheim
March 26, 2010 – 9:59 am
Adam Helms‘s, Untitled Portrait (Santa Fe Trail), 2007, from Haunted Opening today, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance is the latest show at the Guggenheim to focus on performance-based art. Including photography, sound, and video along with performance, Haunted is a far cry from the Tino Sehgal make-out session of the last 3 months or last year’s THEANYSPACEWHATEVER show. [...]
Into the Void
February 12, 2010 – 2:59 pm
Entry by Saunders Architecture Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, opening today at Frank Lloyd Wright’s swirly conch shell up town is an absolutely delightful thought experiment. Simply put, what would you do to the great cavity within the museum if money were no object? The answers to that question, submitted by some [...]
Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim
January 29, 2010 – 10:51 pm
I went to the press preview yesterday of Tino Sehgal’s show at the Guggenheim and it was absolutely amazing. I’m hesitant to talk to much about the specifics, because for me part of the fun of the experience was not knowing what to expect, but I will do my best to review it without being [...]
Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters From the Guggenheim Collection
January 27, 2010 – 11:47 am
As one of the final exhibitions of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection presents thirty-four works by eighteen artists from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection, including significant groups of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. During the first decades of the 20th century, numerous painters and sculptors [...]
The Wright at the Guggenheim
December 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
Tuesday night the Guggenheim opened it’s new restaurant, The Wright, for a press preview. Andre Kikoski’s design takes its form from the mother structure, draping the 1,600-sq-foot room in clean layered curves. Enlivening this is a sculpture of mod-colored aluminum bars by Liam Gillick, which gives a vivid, linear counterpoint to the swerving walls. Gillick’s [...]
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
September 28, 2009 – 3:21 am
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim is a major event in New York. Six levels of the museum have been devoted to the painter’s canvasses – nearly 100 of them – in a retrospective that ranges from 1902-1942 and draws mostly from the three largest public holdings of his work: the Guggenheim Foundation, the Centre Pompidou in [...]
Whatever, Man: the Guggenheim International Gala
November 13, 2008 – 2:50 pm
At the Guggenheim International Gala on Monday night, Rirkrit Tiravanija was surprised to find himself honored, along with the nine other artists in the new exhibition, theanyspacewhatever. “I don’t read the e-mails, I just show up,” he explained. Tiravanija is perhaps best known for his installations, in which he doles out free vegetable curry in [...]
NY.2022 at The Guggenheim
November 10, 2008 – 5:30 pm
In conjunction with the opening of their new group show theanyspacewhatever, the Guggenheim presented NY.2022, an “orchestral installation” by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers, inspired by Soylent Green (1973), a sci-fi police procedural starring Charlton Heston and set in 2022 in a dystopian New York City. Opening against a backdrop of Alex MacLean’s aerial [...]
