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

Permanent event

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

Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi

Permanent event

Artworks

Installation view: Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi. Photo: David Heald

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

Agnes Martin, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

Alberto Burri, Grande bianco plastica (Large White Plastic), 1964, Burned plastic on aluminum stretcher, 191.8 x 292.1 cm, Glenstone, © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome, Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART

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

Dominant Curve (Courbe dominante), April 1936, oil on canvas, 129.2x 194.3 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

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

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

Ivo Pannaggi, Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), 1922, Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, Fondazione Carima–Museo Palazzo Ricci, Macerata, Italy. Photo: Courtesy Fondazione Cassa di risparmio della Provincia di Macerata

Christian Megert, Mirror Shard Book (Spiegelscherbenbuch), 1962, Glass, mirror, and adhesive tape, 42 x 30 x 2 cm, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas Cattelain, London, © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo: Courtesy Franziska Megert

Capricious Forms (Formes capricieuses), July 1937, Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.3 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Filippo Masoero, Descending over Saint Peter (Scendendo su San Pietro), ca. 1927–37 (possibly 1930–33), Gelatin silver print, 24 x 31.5 cm, Touring Club Italiano Archive

Christopher Wool, Installation Views, Photo: David Heald

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