The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Events Archive on Art:Base

Fernand Léger: The Last Decades

This exhibition will present a renewed examination of this French artist’s late career, when his observations of city dwellers and the human form in action inspired a significant body of work organized by theme. Léger was among the few French artists of his generation to visit the United States.

Fernand Léger

Saturday 01 June 2019 to Sunday 01 September 2019
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Hilma af Klint

In fall 2018, the Guggenheim Museum will present the first major solo exhibition in the United States of the work of pioneering artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944).

Hilma Af Klint

Friday 19 October 2018 to Sunday 03 February 2019
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative: Final Exhibition

The third and final exhibition of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative will present new commissions by artists born in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Macao. Launched in 2013, the initiative engages artists, scholars, and curators from around the world to bring intersecting regional and global conversations and contemporary practices to the fore.

Friday 04 May 2018 to Sunday 21 October 2018
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Giacometti

This comprehensive exhibition features more than 175 sculptures, paintings, and drawings by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), in the first major museum presentation of the artist’s work in the United States in fifteen years.

Giacometti

Friday 08 June 2018 to Sunday 16 September 2018
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Danh Vo

The first comprehensive survey in the United States of work by Danish artist Danh Vo (b. 1975, Bà Ria, Vietnam) will fill the ramps of the Guggenheim’s rotunda, offering an illuminating overview of Vo’s production from the past 15 years, including a number of new projects created on the occasion of the exhibition.

Danh Vo

Friday 09 February 2018 to Wednesday 09 May 2018
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Josef Albers in Latin America

On his first trip to Mexico, in 1935, Josef Albers (1888-1976) encountered the magnificent architecture of ancient Mesoamerica. He later remarked in a letter to Vasily Kandinsky, a former colleague at the Bauhaus, “Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art.” With his wife, artist Anni Albers (1899- 1994), Josef Albers visited Mexico and other Latin American countries nearly a dozen times f

Josef Albers

Friday 03 November 2017 to Sunday 18 February 2018
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is a major exhibition of contemporary art from China spanning 1989 to 2008, arguably the most transformative period of modern Chinese and recent world history.

Friday 06 October 2017 to Sunday 07 January 2018
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the institution will display in the rotunda over 170 modern works from the permanent collections held in New York and Venice.

Pablo Picasso Jackson Pollock Alexander Calder Paul Cézanne Vincent Van Gogh Justin K. Thannhauser Karl Nierendorf Peggy Guggenheim Katherine S. Dreier Marc Chagall Kandinsky Paul Klee Piet Mondrian Megan Fontanella

Friday 10 February 2017 to Wednesday 06 September 2017
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Lenka Clayton And Jon Rubin: . . . Circle Through New York.

In their new project A talking parrot, a Punjabi TV show, a high school drama class, the oldest song in the world, a museum artwork, and an unanswered prayer circle through New York, artists Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin gather a diverse group of local communities in a complex system of social and material exchange.

Lenka Clayton Jon Rubin

Wednesday 01 March 2017 to Thursday 31 August 2017
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III, 1971

PSAD Synthetic Desert III belongs to a yet-to-be-realized series of installations conceived by Doug Wheeler during the late 1960s and ’70s. In each work, the architectural modification of an existing room allows the artist to achieve subtle manipulations of light, space, and sound. These changes create a “semi-anechoic chamber” designed to suppress all but the lowest levels of ambient sound.

Friday 24 March 2017 to Thursday 24 August 2017
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897

In 1892 Joséphin Péladan (1859–1918), a Rosicrucian, self-proclaimed high priest of the occult, author, and critic, organized the first Salon de la Rose+Croix. This annual exhibition in Paris showcased mystical Symbolist art, particularly a hermetic, numinous vein of Symbolism that was favored by Péladan and dominant during the 1890s, a time when religious and occult practices often intertwined.

Antoine Bourdelle Jean Delville Rogelio De Egusquiza Charles Filiger Ferdinand Hodler Fernand Khnopff Alphonse Osbert Armand Point Gaetano Previati Georges Rouault Carlos Schwabe Alexandre Séon Jan Toorop Ville Vallgren Félix Vallotton

Friday 30 June 2017 to Tuesday 01 August 2017
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Tales of Our Time

An exhibition presenting the second commission of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative will display new works by artists hailing from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Chia-En Jao, Kan Xuan, Sun Xun, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Tsang Kin-Wah, Yangjiang Group, and Zhou Tao.

Friday 04 November 2016 to Friday 10 March 2017
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Agnes Martin

Filling the Guggenheim rotunda, this exhibition will trace Agnes Martin’s (1912–2004) career from her early experiments of the 1950s through her mature oeuvre and final paintings, making it the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work since her death in 2004.

Agnes Martin

Saturday 01 October 2016 to Sunday 01 January 2017
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise

But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, the third exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, illuminates contemporary artistic practices in the Middle East and North Africa and the region’s diaspora.

Friday 29 April 2016 to Wednesday 05 October 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Moholy-Nagy: Future Present

The first comprehensive retrospective of the work of László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) to appear in the United States in nearly fifty years, this long overdue presentation will reveal a utopian artist who believed that art could work hand-in-hand with technology for the betterment of humanity.

László Moholy Nagy

Friday 27 May 2016 to Wednesday 07 September 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

A Year with Children 2016

This exhibition features art created by students participating in the Guggenheim’s artist-in-residence program Learning Through Art (LTA) for New York City public elementary schools.

Friday 22 April 2016 to Sunday 12 June 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Peter Fischli David Weiss: A Retrospective

For more than three decades, Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) collaborated to create a unique oeuvre that brilliantly exploits humor, banality, and a keen rethinking of the readymade to realign our view of the world.

Peter Fischli David Weiss

Monday 01 February 2016 to Tuesday 31 May 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Guggenheim Presents Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better

From February 5 to April 20, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, the first comprehensive survey in a New York museum of the remarkable 33-year artistic partnership between Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012).

Peter Fischli David Weiss

Friday 05 February 2016 to Wednesday 20 April 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Drawing the Guggenheim

This workshop uses drawing to study Frank Lloyd Wright’s design, focusing on developing a deeper understanding of the museum's architecture.

Saturday 16 April 2016 to Saturday 16 April 2016
Art workshop in New York, United States.

Sixth Annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture: Solar Ethics by Huey Copeland

Since his death in 1993, the musician, writer, and composer Sun Ra—a self-styled intergalactic prophet hailing from Saturn by way of ancient Egypt—has become a frequently referenced touchstone for cultural producers of various stripes.

Huey Copeland

Monday 04 April 2016 to Monday 04 April 2016
Art symposium in New York, United States.

2016 Young Collectors Party

2016 Guggenheim Young Collectors Party to benefit the Young Collectors Council (YCC). An intimate dinner with YCC cochairs and the host committee will be held in The Wright restaurant, and will be followed by a celebration with music, dessert, and drinks in the museum’s rotunda.

Thursday 31 March 2016 to Thursday 31 March 2016
Art benefit in New York, United States.

Photo-Poetics: An Anthology

This group exhibition features over 70 works by ten artists: Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag, and Sara VanDerBeek.

Friday 20 November 2015 to Wednesday 23 March 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Photo-Poetics: An Anthology

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, an exhibition documenting recent developments in contemporary photography and consisting of photographs, videos, and slide installations by ten international artists.

Friday 20 November 2015 to Wednesday 23 March 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Mind’s Eye: Kandinsky

We invite visitors who are blind or who have low vision to join us for a tour and discussion of the current Kandinsky exhibition.

Vasily Kandinsky

Monday 01 February 2016 to Monday 01 February 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Mind’s Eye—Photo Poetics: An Anthology

Mind’s Eye programs, offered on the first Monday or second Wednesday of every other month, provide an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to explore the museum's exhibitions, collections, and architecture through communication and sensory tools particular to their experience.

Wednesday 13 January 2016 to Wednesday 13 January 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Guggenheim Presents Major Alberto Burri Retrospective

The first major retrospective in the United States in nearly forty years devoted to the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). The exhibition positions the artist as a central protagonist of post–World War II art and revises traditional narratives of the cultural exchanges between the United States and Europe in the 1950s and ’60s.

Alberto Burri

Friday 09 October 2015 to Wednesday 06 January 2016
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Doris Salcedo

This major retrospective will survey the searing, deeply poetic work of Doris Salcedo (b. 1958, Bogotá, Colombia). Over the past three decades, Salcedo's practice has addressed the traumatic history of modern-day Colombia, as well as wider legacies of suffering stemming from colonialism, racism, and other forms of social injustice.

Doris Salcedo

Friday 26 June 2015 to Monday 12 October 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Eye to Eye: Gallery Readings by Michael Cunningham and Kathryn Harrison

In this intimate evening program, authors Michael Cunningham and Kathryn Harrison read texts inspired by works on view in Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, along with other selections of their choice. The program is followed by a reception on the rotunda floor.

Wednesday 08 July 2015 to Wednesday 22 July 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Storylines Video Program: John Bock, Camille Henrot, Mark Leckey, and Ryan Trecartin

This program features work by Guggenheim collection artists who use video art as a means to tell their unique narratives.

Ryan Trecartin Mark Leckey John Bock Camille Henrot

Friday 05 June 2015 to Friday 19 June 2015
Art screening in New York, United States.

An Evening with Kevin Beasley

Kevin Beasley’s commission by the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council on the occasion of Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Strange Fruit (Pair 1) (2015) incorporates the sounds of the museum into sculptures made from sneakers, foam, resin, and other materials.

Kevin Beasley

Tuesday 16 June 2015 to Tuesday 16 June 2015
Art performance in New York, United States.

Summerscapes Art Camp

Want to inspire your children’s creativity? Sign them up for Summerscapes, our stimulating, museum educator–led mini-camps. Each of the five-day sessions begins with an exploration of our Frank Lloyd Wright building, permanent collection, and special exhibitions.

Monday 15 June 2015 to Monday 15 June 2015
Art course in New York, United States.

Guggenheim Museum Celebrates 2015 Museum Mile Festival

The Guggenheim will offer chalk drawing on Fifth Avenue, as well as free access to all exhibitions on view: The Thannhauser Collection, A Year with Children 2015, and Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim. The Brooklyn-based band Evolfo will provide musical entertainment in front of the museum throughout the festival.

Tuesday 09 June 2015 to Tuesday 09 June 2015
Art festival in New York, United States.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974–2014

(NEW YORK, NY—January 30, 2015)—From March 13 to June 3, 2015, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of the celebrated Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. 1924).

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

Friday 13 March 2015 to Wednesday 03 June 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

The Hugo Boss Prize 2014: Paul Chan, Nonprojections for New Lovers

An exhibition of work by artist Paul Chan, winner of the Hugo Boss Prize 2014, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Recognized for his multifaceted and often experimental body of work that includes animated projections, community-based performances, conceptual typefaces, and digital and print publishing, Chan is the tenth artist to receive the Hugo Boss Prize.

Paul Chan

Friday 06 March 2015 to Wednesday 13 May 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

On Kawara—silence Programs

Conceived by exhibition curator Jeffrey Weiss, this series of paired talks positions On Kawara within an interdisciplinary world context. Themes inspired by each speaker’s engagement with Kawara’s work include everyday life, globalism, politics, language, travel, and pictorial abstraction. An exhibition viewing and reception follows each program.

Tuesday 24 February 2015 to Tuesday 28 April 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

27th Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture: Episodes from the Visual Culture of Electric Paris

Hollis Clayson's analysis of the visual culture of Paris takes root in the often overlooked fact that lighting (éclairage) was a key attribute of the City of Light in the 19th century.

Tuesday 27 January 2015 to Tuesday 27 January 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.