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Guggenheim Museum

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Guggenheim Museum officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, major museum of modern art in New York City. Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular building (1959) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright . It holds major exhibitions of the works of contemporary artists. Its permanent collection includes, among many modern works, numerous pieces by Brancusi and Kandinsky . In 1992 the Guggenheim opened a 10-story limestone addition in the rear of its original structure and also began operating a branch in the city's SoHo district. The... Read more
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
...The museum has a comprehensive collection of European painting from throughout the 20th century and of American painting from the second half of the century. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Read more
Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
...titanium-sheathed mass suggests a gigantic work of abstract sculpture. The interior space, organized around a large atrium, is mainly devoted to modern and contemporary art. Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Read more

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In a spiral: the Guggenheim Museum's controversial director keeps wheeling and dealing. But what's art got to do with it? (Thomas Krens)
; GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM DIRECTOR Thomas Krens leans back...in northern Spain: to build a Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, paid for by the Basques...every other major New York City museum. Early that year, the Guggenheim cut the hours at both branches... Read more
Elevating the Guggenheim; New director brings focus back to flagship museum during tough time for nonprofits.(Lisa Dennison's management of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, )
; ...Wilson The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum's anticipated face...named director of the Guggenheim Museum, a new position, in...Dennison says the museum dismisses such requests...attendance levels at the Guggenheim have never fully recovered... Read more
ABU DHABI TO BUILD GEHRY-DESIGNED GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
; ...Dhabi museum will be the only Guggenheim museum in the region and will be larger...this agreement to establish a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi. "I congratulate...will join a highly exclusive Guggenheim museum network which currently includes... Read more
Profile: Guggenheim Museum's exhibit of Giorgio Armani fashions
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Guggenheim Museum's exhibit of Giorgio Armani...have lined the runways of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Other museums...Mr. HAROLD KODA (Curator, Guggenheim Museum): We're very puritanical. So... Read more
Spain's SHINY NEW SHOWCASE; Familiar to Minnesotans because of the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, architect Frank Gehry has had another success with the new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Architecture critic Linda Mack takes a look at it, as Gehry gets ready to tackle another Guggenheim for New York.(TRAVEL)
; ...the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain...were touring the museum with Ana Lopez de Munain of the Guggenheim's communications...motorcycles. The Bilbao museum, a branch of the New York-based Guggenheim, houses only a small... Read more
Dragons on the march: the Guggenheim brings 5,000 years of art from China to New York.(Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
; Last October the Guggenheim museum opened a breathtaking...China. The Shanghai Museum opened Masterpieces From the Guggenheim last June, and other...at the Metropolitan Museum, whose turf some think the Guggenheim is invading -- says... Read more
Family affair.(art from Peggy Guggenheim's collection; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY)
; ...postwar art. Now a show at the Guggenheim Museum corrects the record. Its...times. On June 12, New York's Guggenheim Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary...dei Leoni in Venice, now a museum, which was Peggy Guggenheim's home from 1949 until her... Read more
Guggenheim to build museum in Abu Dhabi
; ...07-10-2006 Headline: Guggenheim to build museum in Abu Dhabi Byline...10, 2006 -- The Guggenheim announced plans...Gehry-designed art museum in Abu Dhabi...dialogue." The Guggenheim hopes to repeat...where Gehry's museum became the centerpiece... Read more
Las Vegas Guggenheim Museum Faces Uncertain Future after Motorcycle Exhibit.
; ...spokeswoman for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, parent organization for...separate museum entity, the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, leases space from The Venetian...exhibit housed at the nearby Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, began Aug. 30 and is scheduled... Read more
Guggenheim museum will close
; ...located, said Tuesday. The Guggenheim museum in Las Vegas is funded and controlled by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which earlier...reassigned to the much smaller Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, also located in the Venetian... Read more

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