Installation of nineteenth-century modern objects and furniture on view at Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Featuring more than forty items from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American and European decorative arts, 19th-Century Modern will focus on the emergence of Modernism, an aesthetic based in part on the machine as a source of artistic inspiration. The installation will include objects from the early nineteenth century to the twentieth century to demonstrate the theme. Although this new machine aesthetic began in the early nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the last quarter of the century that the trend [...]

Important 20th Century Decorative Art and Design Works Shine at Christie’s New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announce the sales of Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design and Important Tiffany, both including Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky. The sales will take place on Wednesday December 15. The auctions immediately follow the highly anticipated Day Sale of DeLorenzo: 30 Years. With over 100 lots, the Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design sale is expected to generate upwards of $2.5 million, with works ranging from Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art [...]

Guggenheim Museum Launches Contemplating the Void Competition

NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate the close of the Guggenheim‘s 50th Anniversary year on May 14, 2010, the museum announces a new online competition inviting participants to reimagine the museum’s iconic rotunda and submit their ideas via the image-sharing site Flickr. The competition, entitled Re: Contemplating the Void—Create Your Own Guggenheim Intervention, corresponds to the current exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim, in which the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their [...]

Research Findings from Guggenheim Archives Collections Now Available Online

NEW YORK, NY.- Weekly highlights of objects of interest found in five Guggenheim archive collections can now be viewed on Guggenheim.org. Since September 2009, project staff, as part of a detailed processing grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has been examining the records of the museum’s first three directors, along with the complete Exhibition records from 1939 to 1987 and the Reel to Reel collection consisting of audiotapes of lectures and symposia from 1952 to [...]

Guggenheim Announces Online Auction to Benefit Exhibition Programming

NEW YORK, NY.- As a finale to the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the museum will auction works donated to benefit the museum’s exhibition programming, now on view in the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. The works in this eclectic presentation include nearly 200 submissions from international artists, architects, and designers who were asked to imagine their own visionary interventions in the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda. The works will be previewed at an auction benefit event on [...]

Kandinsky Exhibition at the Guggenheim Helps Set New Attendance Record

NEW YORK, NY.- Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009, the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Over 1.3 million visitors came to the museum this past year, enjoying groundbreaking exhibitions such as The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989; Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward; The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural; and Kandinsky. The numbers for the year were 22 percent greater than projected, and 16 percent higher [...]

TEFAF DESIGN to Present Rare and Influential Pieces in 2010

MAASTRICHT.- TEFAF Design, the stylish newcomer to TEFAF Maastricht in 2009, will exhibit works by some of the greatest names in the history of design when the world’s most influential art and antiques fair opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from March 12-21, 2010. They will include a suite by Frank Lloyd Wright, a unique sculpture by Gio Ponti, a rare chair by Le Corbusier and furniture that Otto Wagner made for his [...]

The Wright, a New Restaurant, Launches at the Guggenheim

NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building, The Wright, New York City’s newest restaurant, opens to the public on December 11, in the famed museum. Named in honor of the great American architect, the intimate Upper East Side destination is located in an elegant and modern architectural space that is sure to dazzle trendsetters, fine diners, art lovers, and world travelers. Additionally, a site-specific sculpture by British artist Liam Gillick [...]

New Tour at Frank Lloyd Wright Synagogue in Pennsylvania

ELIKINS PARK, PA (AP).-Did you hear the one about the rabbi and the architect? Few people have. Which is why the members of Beth Sholom — who worship in the only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — are stepping forward to tell the story of how their landmark spiritual home was built. Described as a symbolic Mount Sinai made of concrete, steel and glass, the iconic building somehow never received the attention of more famous Wright designs like Fallingwater [...]