Guggenheim is 54 years old today

On this date in 1959, thousands of New Yorkers turned up for the opening of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Solomon R Guggenheim Museum. This link takes you to Buildings & Crowd, a short film of footage from the grand opening.
Image: opening of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in 1959

Blake Gopnik on James Turrell's installation at the Guggenheim

James Turrell's installation in the rotunda of the Guggenheim is the must-see show in New York this summer. Blake Gopnik arrived at the museum expecting to experience the light of timeless truth, but says what he could feel and see most clearly were "dollar signs and the troubling social structures that art such as this now reflects." Read more...

Image: James Turrell's Aten Reign at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Guggenheim Museum turns to Asia with a new initiative

In partnership with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation (and with a USD10 million Foundation grant), the Guggenheim Museum has launched a project to commission works by contemporary artists born in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, to feature in three exhibitions between 2014 and 2017. The project follows two previous collaborations between the Guggenheim and the Robert H. N. Ho Foundation  - the exhibitions Cai Guo-Chiang:  I want to Believe (2008) and The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1869.
Image: Cai Guo-Qiang, I want to Believe, installation view, Guggenheim Museum, 2008