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

Thannhauser Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Art and China after 1989. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Mystical Symbolism, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Agnes Martin, Untitled #5, 1998. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Erica Baum, Jaws, 2008 (from the series Naked Eye) (detail). Inkjet print, 47 x 41.6 cm. 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

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

Doris Salcedo, Plegaria Muda (detail), 2008–10, Wood, concrete, earth, and grass in 122 parts, dimensions variable. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Untitled, 1976, Mirror, reverse-glass painting, and plaster on wood
100 x 100 cm, Collection of Zahra Farmanfarmaian, Santa Fe © Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Photo: Filipe Braga © Fundação de Serralves–Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal

On Kawara, APR – 1 1969, From I Got Up, 1968–79, Stamped ink on postcard, 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 23 cm). MTM Collection, Japan

Wang Jianwei working at his Beijing studio, 2014. Photo: Xu Boxin, courtesy the artist. All works by Wang Jianwei © 2014 Wang Jianwei, used by permission.

Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America. Photograph by Kristopher McKay © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

Carrie Mae Weems, Listening for the Sounds of Revolution (from Dreaming in Cuba), 2002, Gelatin silver print, 28 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches (72.4 x 72.4 cm), Collection of the artist, Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Carrie Mae Weems

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

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