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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.

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Picturing 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.

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Installing 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.

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1973 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.

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“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.

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Explore 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...

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The 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.

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Digitizing 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.

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Two 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.

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Programs 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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