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Joined January 2008
Happy Birthday Marina Abramović! (@abramovicinstitute) In 2005, she staged “Seven Easy Pieces,” a series of seven performances over as many consecutive evenings that occupied the Rotunda from 5 p.m. to midnight daily. For the first six nights Abramović reenacted landmark
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"What first inspired me was my deep admiration for Frank Lloyd Wright. For me, drawing architecture is a way of inhabiting it with my eyes, a way to uncover its intentions and its silences. This particular work feels like a living sculpture, a piece of art that not only holds art
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From our Guggenheim family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 The museum is closed today, but we’ll be open tomorrow and all weekend long. _______ Gabriele Münter, Still Life, Red (Stillleben, rot), 1909. Collection of the McNay Art Museum © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
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Our holiday gift guide has arrived! Shop thoughtful finds for art lovers, design fans, and bookworms on your list—plus save 25% online through December 1. 🎁 Discover more at the 🔗 in our bio.
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Step into Georges Braque’s Fauve period with "Landscape near Antwerp" —where color, pattern, and perspective collide. Experience it IRL in our Thannhauser Collection gallery. ______ Georges Braque "Landscape near Antwerp", 1906. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
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“As the pace of information and images being thrown at us in our daily lives continues to pick up speed, her art, and the slow, introspective looking it invites us to do, feels like an antidote.”- Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue. Read about "Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World" and
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“Her adherence to life is what made her radical in her own time, when so many artists were thinking through fractured picture planes and moving towards this more abstract language as synonymous with...
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Known for his bold, textured geometric forms in yellows, ochres, and russets against black, Takeo Yamaguchi’s Work—"Yellow (Unstable Square)" (1958) was featured prominently in the Guggenheim’s 1959 inaugural exhibition. Happy Birthday to Takeo Yamaguchi, born on this day in
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"Barge" sets the stage alongside works from the Guggenheim's collection that highlight Robert Rauschenberg's radical use of materials and media. With rave reviews from The New York Times, Artnet News and more, come see for yourself why "Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be
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We’ve definitely been changed for good… by Gabriele Münter’s "Dragon Fight." ❇️ Once you've soared through Oz, step into “Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World” and let her colors and compositions open up a world that feels—dare we say—unlimited. 💚 _______ Gabriele Münter,
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"This painting was inspired by a visit I made to New York in 2018, during the powerful Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition at the Guggenheim. Her visionary work felt like it belonged in that building, as if Frank Lloyd Wright had designed the spiral especially for
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"Rauschenberg loved life—the life that went into art—just as much as he loved the art, and it’s the broad sweep of his energy which makes “Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped”, curated with care and a sure eye by Joan Young, so essential."-Hilton Als, The New Yorker.
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How the artist’s transformative energy made us see the world around us.
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"Abandoned stones which I become interested in invite me to enter into their life’s purpose. It is my task to define and make visible the intent of their being.”- Isamu Noguchi. Happy birthday to Isamu Noguchi, born on this day in 1904. ♏ _______ Isamu Noguchi, "The Cry",
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Guggenheim Collection artist, Tracey Moffatt initially trained as a filmmaker. She moves seamlessly between video and photography, creating works that blend staged fiction with documentary style. Drawing on cinema, magazines, and advertising, she constructs her own realities
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Join us on Thursday, November 20 for the premiere of “Home” (2025), a new video work by @RashidJohnson, shown for the first time in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater alongside “Black and Blue” (2021) and “Sanguine” (2024). Featuring poetry by Johnson’s mother, Dr. Cheryl
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🎉 Happy birthday, Claude Monet! 🎨 Monet’s Venetian paintings of 1908 capture the shimmering canals, misty skies, and vibrant reflections like never before—stripping Venice down to its luminous essence while influencing the course of modern art. These works, made alongside
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November’s Late Shift features new music by Blacks’ Myths—bassist and composer Luke Stewart’s sonic exploration of history, memory, and awareness. Joined by Warren G “Trae” Crudup III on drums; Cassie Watson Francillon on harp and electronics; Christina Wheeler, on Array mbira,
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Gabriele Münter's "Still Life on the Tram (After Shopping)" mirrors her own experience of navigating modern life, with all its ambiguities and contradictions. The identity and place of this work remain concealed, revealed only through Gabriele Münter’s subtle cues. The headless
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In "Yellow Body," Robert Rauschenberg turns experimentation into art. 🟡 During a 1952 trip to Cuba, he began transferring printed images—by rubbing them from newspapers and magazines onto paper—then layered paint, pencil, and crayon to create his signature “veiled” look. Later,
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