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

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

Artworks

Thannhauser Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Agnes Martin, White Flower, 1960. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Erin Shirreff, UN 2010, 2010. Color high-definition video, silent, 17 min. continuous loop, A.P. 1/2, edition of 3. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by Erica Gervais, 2010.29 © 2010 Erin Shirreff

Alberto Burri, Grande cretto nero (Large Black Cretto), 1977, Acrylic and Vinavil on board, 149.5 x 249.5 cm, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Gift of the artist, 1978
© 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome, Photo: Courtesy Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York

Blue Mountain (Der blaue Berg), 1908–09, oil on canvas, 106 x 96.6 cm

Circles on Black (Krugi na Chyomom) (Kreise auf Schwarz), 1921, oil on canvas, 136.5 x 120 cm

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Mirror Ball, 1973, Mirror on plaster ball, 19 x 19 x 19 cm, Collection of Nima Isham, Montana © Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Photo: Filipe Braga © Fundação de Serralves–Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in her studio working on Heptagon Star, Tehran, 1975. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and The Third Line, Dubai

V. S. Gaitonde, Untitled, 1995, Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inches (152.4 x 101.6 cm). Courtesy Pundole Family Collection. Courtesy Khorshed and Dadiba Pundole

Otto Piene, Light Ballet (Light Satellite) (top) and Light Ballet (Light Drum), 1969, Chrome, glass, and light bulbs, sphere diameter: 38 cm; drum height: 45.7 cm, diameter: 124.5 cm, Moeller Fine Art, New York, © Otto Piene. Photo: Courtesy Moeller Fine Art, New York

Illustration from ZERO 3 (July 1961), design by Heinz Mack, © Heinz Mack. Photo: Heinz Mack

Wang Jianwei: Time Temple works in progress at Wang Jianwei’s Beijing studio, 2014. Photo: Xu Boxin, courtesy the artist. All works by Wang Jianwei © 2014 Wang Jianwei, used by permission.

Portrait of artist Wang Jianwei in his studio, Beijing, 2013. Photo: Xiao Mi. Courtesy the artist

Installation view: Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 21–September 1, 2014. Photo: Kris McKay © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Otto Piene, Venus of Willendorf (Venus von Willendorf), 1963, Oil and soot on canvas, 150 x 200 cm, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, © Otto Piene. Photo: Courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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