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Peggy Guggenheim Collection.(Museum News)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/2004; 79 words ; The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice recently opened a new annex next to the museum's existing building, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand...exhibition spaces. Inaugurating the structure is a recent sculpture by Fabrizio Plessi, Digital Water (2003), and the exhibition Peggy and Kiesler: The ... Read more
William Mack, founder and senior partner, Apollo Real Estate Advisors, and Janna Bullock, CEO, RIGroup, celebrate the opening of the Matthew Barney/Joseph Bueys exhibit 'All in the Present Must Be Transformed' at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 7/4/2007; 68 words ; ...exhibit 'All in the Present Must Be Transformed' at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. William Mack is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Bullock is a newly-elected board member... Read more
The deal of the century. (opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain)(includes interview with Thomas Krens)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...remarkable salesmanship and sheer tenacity of the Guggenheim Foundation's peripatetic director, Thomas Krens...its helm, Krens's relentless efforts to enlarge the Guggenheim's domain have by turns shocked, astonished and bemused...art world. In his hyperactive quest for potential Guggenheim branch sites, ... Read more
Another Guggenheim for Venice.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/2000; ; 151 words ; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the municipality of Venice recently...the Foundation plans to follow up the success of the Guggenheim Bilbao with a museum branch in South America, perhaps...the national government grants to the city and the Guggenheim a 99-year, rent-free lease on the Punta della ... Read more
Growing up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise.(HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, BIOGRAPHY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 108 words ; CT274 2005-921372 1-932236-57-0 Growing up Guggenheim; a personal history of a family enterprise. Lawson...2005 152 p. $35.00 In his memoir, Lawson-Johnston, a Guggenheim himself and the board president who oversaw the transformation...traces his career and that of others who developed the Guggenheim art ... Read more
Confessions of an Art Addict.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...little rich girl want? Peggy Guggenheim was known as a great patron...multimillionaire while Guggenheim never had much more than...was never a business for Guggenheim. It was a calling for which...her economic roots. The Guggenheims made their fortune by cornering...market in copper mines; ... Read more
Towering Wim Delvoye ambition: a conversation with Paul Laster.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/2009; 700+ words ; ...creating a monumental work for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection during the 53rd Venice...about your exhibition for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. WIM DELVOYE...but they'll still visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. I had to consider... Read more
Summer reading.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 6/1/2005; 447 words ; ...Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim, by Mary V. Dearborn, Boston...1942, along with the prices Peggy Guggenheim paid for the many important...and the building of a legacy. Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler: The... Read more
A Missed Rendezvous.(mixed art exhibits )
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...art-historical atmosphere of the Guggenheim and into the rough-and-tumb...belong to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum but come from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice...without the prescience of Peggy Guggenheim, and her generosity in... Read more
Jackson Pollock, el pintor que no sabía dibujar.(TT: Jackson Pollock, the painter who couldn't draw.)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 12/15/2001; 700+ words ; ...pasado. Apenas vio la pintura, la mecenas neoyorquina Peggy Guggenheim (fundadora del museo que lleva su apellido) retrocedió...su creador, Jackson Pollock. Tanto impresionó a Peggy Guggenheim la pasión de aquel hombre que al cabo se convirtió... Read more

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