How the Guggenheim Keeps Its Galleries Immaculate
As more than a million visitors make their way through the Guggenheim’s rotunda and galleries every year, it takes hard work to keep the art spaces in the museum spotless.
View ArticlePicturing Alberto Burri’s Composizione
As ephemera in the Guggenheim Archives show, work by artist Alberto Burri—now the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum—has been depicted in a variety of ways since the 1950s.
View ArticleInstalling Mona Hatoum’s Impenetrable
Assistant Curator Lauren Hinkson describes the neck-crinking effort required to install Mona Hatoum’s sculpture, and how this mirrors the experience of viewing the work.
View Article1973 Radio Interview and Reading with John Ashbery
Forty-one years ago, as part of a reading series organized by the Academy of American Poets and held at the Guggenheim from the mid 1960s through 1980, John Ashbery gave a reading at the museum.
View Article“An Exciting Discovery”: Italian Futurism Exhibition Opens at the Guggenheim...
The first comprehensive retrospective of Italian Futurism in a U.S. museum is now on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
View ArticleExplore Futurist Works in the Collection Online
Looking beyond the current exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, use the Collection Online to discover Futurist artworks from across Europe that are not on view in New...
View ArticleThe Museum Mile Festival, 33 Years Ago
This brochure from the third Museum Mile Festival, held 33 years ago, looks a lot like a period subway map.
View ArticleDigitizing Peggy Guggenheim’s Scrapbooks
Dating from the 1940s to the 1970s, Peggy Guggenheim's scrapbooks, which the Guggenheim Museum recently digitized, visually document her public life.
View ArticleTwo Collection Artists Explore the Possibilities of Mirrors in Art
Because they reproduce the viewer’s own image, mirrors and their surface are a powerfully engaging material for art.
View ArticlePrograms from a Series of 1940s “Film Concerts”
During the winter and spring of 1940–41, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting held four screenings of abstract films by artists including Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, and Viking Eggeling. The...
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