Tag: Guggenheim
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Art Explosion: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim
Friday, November 25, 2011
If a naughty Catholic schoolboy had an unlimited budget to put on an exhibit at the Guggenheim, Maurizio Cattelan's All is likely what you'd end up with. Check out a slideshow of the hyper-real sculptures and disconcerting pieces of taxidermy Cattelan's hung from the Guggenheim's ceiling here.
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Waiting for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Open? Expect Delays
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Tourism Development and Investment Company, a state-run United Arab Emirates development company responsible for building the Frank Gehry-designed museum, has retracted its call for contractors to do cement work on the museum.
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Behind the Scenes: Artist Lee Ufan Installs Work at the Guggenheim
Thursday, June 23, 2011
On Friday, the first U.S. retrospective for Lee Ufan, an artist and poet born in South Korea who moved to Japan in his 20s, opens at the Guggenheim. Click here to see Ufan installing his existential, raw boulders at the Guggenheim, some of which were selected from Long Island for the exhibition.
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Artists Continue Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Boycott Despite New Labor Monitor
Friday, June 03, 2011
On Tuesday, the Guggenheim Museum announced that Pricewaterhouse Coopers would oversee the employment of migrant workers at the construction of its new location on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island. But artists say they will continue to boycott the museum until their demands are met.
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Guggenheim Says Artists' Boycott Jeopardizes Abu Dhabi Project
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
More than 130 artists have boycotted the Guggenheim's new Abu Dhabi location over migrant workers' rights.
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Guggenheim Explores Expansion into Finland
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
On Tuesday, Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen announced that the city had commissioned the Guggenheim to conduct a study on the feasibility of bringing a new modern art museum administered by the Guggenheim to town.
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Tax Returns Show Guggenheim Spends Big on Executive Compensation
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The foundation recently released its 2009 tax returns, which revealed some surprising figures around executive pay.
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Italian Satirical Sculpture and Korean Philosophy Coming to the Guggenheim
Thursday, November 18, 2010
A tragic Italian poet, a radical Korean philosopher and the art of shoe-making are some of the things coming to the Guggenheim next year. The museum unveiled its 2011 exhibitions today and they include a show with the satirical sculptures of Maurizio Cattelan in the fall, the first North American retrospective of sculptor and painter Lee Ufan in June, and the installation Shoelace Exchange, by the San Francisco group Futurefarmers, in May.
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Hans-Peter Feldmann Wins 2010 Hugo Boss Prize
Friday, November 05, 2010
The German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has won this year's Hugo Boss prize. Feldmann, who has been creating conceptual art for four decades, will receive $100,000 along with the award.
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Guggenheim and YouTube Unveil 'Biennial of Creative Video'
Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Guggenheim Museum and YouTube will screen 20 videos which won an online "Biennial of Creative Video" contest. The museum will project the videos onto its facade Thursday and Friday night from sundown until 10:30 P.M.
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NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Denies Guggenheim's Food Kiosk Application
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Think it's your last chance to grab a cheap pretzel, kebob or hot dog before heading into the Guggenheim museum? Think again. On Tuesday, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission denied the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum's application to install a permanent teardrop-shaped food kiosk made of stainless steel and resin. The commission ruled that the museum's proposed kiosk would not fit with Frank Lloyd Wright's 1950s spirals and cantilevers in the museum's entry area.
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A New York-Centric Timeline of the 1940s and '50s
Friday, October 01, 2010
What was happening and when — here's WNYC's timeline of some of the most significant events in the 1940s and '50s.
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Datebook: May 27, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Whitney Museum takes over downtown, abstractions made of thread and paint, sculptures that look like battlestars and the art of Chatroulette. Your guide to what's happening now.
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A Kiss Is Just A Kiss?
Friday, April 16, 2010
Of the many discussions and debates about Tino Sehgal, one that I’ve found most intriguing is the reaction to the sexual politics of “Kiss,” his slow-mo choreographic embrace.
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Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim: A Follow-Up
Monday, March 01, 2010
The second time around was not at all like the first time.
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Don’t Objectify Him: Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim
Friday, January 29, 2010
The Tino Sehgal show at the Guggenheim proves that you sometimes have to empty out the museum in order to see what's really there. Share your reaction here.
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Be a Part of It: Join WNYC at a Guggenheim Happening
Thursday, January 07, 2010
On Friday, January 29, the Guggenheim Museum opens a highly unusual exhibit. It will not contain a single object: no paintings, sculptures, videos or installations.
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Getting it Wright: Dining at the Guggenheim's New Restaurant
Monday, January 04, 2010
The oughts saw the demise of countless institutions (books, newspapers, network news anchors), but there's one most folks are not likely to miss: the ossified museum cafeteria, with its plastic trays, bounteous fluorescent lighting and grim metal counters stocked with stale egg salad sandwiches and Sanka.