Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim Museum

An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums.

Location

New York, United States

Founded in

1937

Thannhauser Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Thannhauser Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Thannhauser Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Thannhauser Collection

Permanent event

Installation view: Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Ongoing. Photo: David Heald

Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi

Permanent event

Thannhauser Collection, exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Thannhauser Collection

Permanent event

Artworks

Danh Vo. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Art and China after 1989. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Mystical Symbolism, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Installation View: Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 10, 2016–September 6, 2017
Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2017

Sara VanDerBeek, From the Means of Reproduction, 2007. Chromogenic print, 101.6 x 76.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Lisa Oppenheim, The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else, 2006. Slide projection of 15 35 mm slides, continuous loop, dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Atrabiliarios (detail), 1992–2004
Shoes, drywall, paint, wood, animal fiber, and surgical thread; 43 niches and 40 boxes, overall dimensions variable, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase: gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Patricia and Raoul Kennedy, Elaine McKeon, Lisa and John Miller, Chara Schreyer and Gordon Freund, and Robin Wright © Doris Salcedo

R. H. Quaytman, Point de Gaze, Chapter 23, 2011, Silkscreen ink and gesso on panel, 82.2 x 50.8 x 1.9 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council 2012.13 © R. H. Quaytman, Photo: Kristopher McKay, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Alberto Burri, Ferro SP (Iron SP), 1961, Iron and oil on wood, 130 x 200 cm, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome, © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome
Photo: Antonio Idini, Soprintendenza alla Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Courtesy Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

Several Circles (Einige Kreise), January–February 1926, oil on canvas, 140.3 x 140.7 cm

On Kawara, DEC. 29, 1977, “Thursday.” New York, From Today, 1966–2013, Acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm), Pictured with artist-made cardboard storage boxes, 10 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 2 inches (26.8 x 27.2 x 5 cm), Private collection. Photo: Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London

Wang Jianwei, Time Temple 2, 2014 (detail), Seven parts, wood, rubber, and steel, dimensions variable
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Acquisition in process, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Collection. Photo: Xu Boxin, courtesy the artist. All works by Wang Jianwei © 2014 Wang Jianwei, used by permission.

Installation views: Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 24–May 14, 2014. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Student artwork, 3rd grade, PS 144, Queens, 2014. Photo: Kris McKay © 2014 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Pol Bury, Punctuation (Ponctuation), 1959, Wood and electric motor, diameter: 70 cm, Private collection, Brussels, courtesy Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels, © Pol Bury. Photo: Courtesy Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels

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