Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation proposes building a museum in Finnish capital

HELSINKI (AP).- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on Tuesday proposed building a museum in the Finnish capital after a yearlong feasibility study. The organization said that the board of trustees approved the study last month. “The board’s enthusiastic support reflects its conviction that moving forward to the next stage of the project would strengthen the Guggenheim network,” the report said. “It … (will) make an outstanding contribution to the cultural life of the Nordic and Baltic regions.” The 190-page study was [...]

First solo show in Mexico by Darío Villalba at Luis Adelantado Gallery in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY.- Luis Adelantado Gallery presents the first solo show in Mexico, by the national prize of art, Darío Villalba(1939, San Sebastián, Spain). A man observes works of Spanish artist Dario Villalba during an exhibition inaugurated at gallery Luis Adelantado in Mexico City, Mexico, 22 September 2011. EPA/Sashenka Gutierrez. An artist that has been a part of the gallery almost from the beginning, Villalba is an inescapable reference to the understanding of art, after the Informalism generation of the fifties up until [...]

Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University appoints Min Jung Kim as deputy director

EAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has appointed Min Jung Kim as its deputy director. Throughout her career, which includes more than a decade’s experience in international programming and planning for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Kim has developed strategic alliances and collaborative initiatives with cultural institutions around the globe. At MSU’s Broad Art Museum , she will be responsible for strategic planning and overseeing daily operations. She joins the new Zaha Hadid-designed museum, which [...]

Phillips Collection Features Works by Pioneering Abstract Artist Wassily Kandinsky

WASHINGTON, DC.- After a visit to his native Moscow in 1912, Wassily Kandinsky (1866−1944) sought to record the “extremely powerful impressions” that lingered in his memory. Working tirelessly through numerous drawings, watercolors, and oil studies over a five-month period, Kandinsky eventually arrived at his 1913 masterpiece, Painting with White Border. This exhibition, co-organized with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, reunites Painting with White Border with 11 preparatory studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil from international collections. By examining this [...]

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance at the Guggenheim in Bilbao

BILBAO.- From November 6, 2010, until March 13, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. The exhibition was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in [...]

Major Exhibition of Video-Animation, Painting, and Sculpture by Federico Solmi at Conner Contemporary

WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents “Douche Bag City”, a major exhibition of video-animation, painting, and sculpture by Federico Solmi. Solmi shocked Europe last year by exhibiting “The Evil Empire” (2008), the video portrait of a future Pope whose violent sex addiction leads to widespread ruin. Because of the work’s controversial content, the video was censored in France and Spain. Solmi, who lives in New York, was put on trial in his native Italy for obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion. Later [...]

Guggenheim Foundation and BMW Group Announce a Major New Global Initiative

NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, and Frank-Peter Arndt, Member of the Board of Management, BMW AG, today announced a long-term collaboration that will span six years of program activities, engage people in major cities around the globe, and inspire the creation of forward-looking concepts and designs for urban life. The initiative will engage a new generation of leaders in architecture, art, science, design, technology, and education, who will address the challenges [...]

Guggenheim and YouTube Launch Search for the World’s Most Creative Video

NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, together with YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, announced the launch of YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. A collaboration with HP, YouTube Play was conceived to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Open to the global online community, YouTube Play is the most inclusive international search for new creative video. A jury of experts comprising celebrated figures from the worlds [...]

Guggenheim Study Reveals Importance of Education in Development of Problem-Solving Skills and Creativity

NEW YORK, NY.- On June 3 and 4, “Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem Solving in the Classroom”, a conference for art and museum educators, administrators, and policy makers from across the nation, will convene in the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum. During this conference, the Guggenheim will present key findings from The Art of Problem Solving, a four-year research initiative that evaluated the impact of its pioneering arts education program Learning Through Art (LTA) [...]

New Commissioned Works by Julie Mehretu on View at the Guggenheim

NEW YORK, NY.- Julie Mehretu: Grey Area, an exhibition of six new large–scale paintings by American artist Julie Mehretu, is presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim, May 14 to October 6, 2010. Commissioned in 2007 by Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the suite of semiabstract works is inspired by a multitude of sources, including historical photographs, urban planning grids, modern art, and graffiti, and explores the [...]

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 Foundation Announces Appointments for the Abu Dhabi Project

NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, has announced two staff appointments for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project: Suzanne Cotter, Curator of Exhibitions, Abu Dhabi Project, and Reem Fadda, Associate Curator for Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project. Ms. Cotter and Ms. Fadda will join members of the Abu Dhabi Project team to develop future exhibition programming for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and to advise on the creation of its art collection focused on international [...]

Guggenheim Creates Cabinet and Appoints Ari Wiseman as Deputy Director

NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, today announced the creation of an Executive Cabinet and the appointment of Ari Wiseman as a Deputy Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, a newly created position. “The enormous vitality of the Guggenheim, here in New York and around the world, is inspiring. Our impressive program of exhibitions, education, conservation research, and performing arts, as well as the ambitious plan for a new museum in Abu Dhabi, [...]

Michael Schulhof Elected to Board of Trustees of Guggenheim Foundation

NEW YORK, NY.- Michael P. Schulhof, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GTI Group, was elected to the board of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation at the December 16 meeting of the board. The announcement was made by William L. Mack, Chairman of the Board of the Guggenheim Foundation, who commented, “Michael’s business acumen and commitment to contemporary art will be a critical asset to the Guggenheim’s board of trustees. His parents, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof, [...]

Studies on Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Expansion in Urdaibai Presented

NEW YORK, NY.- The results of preliminary studies analyzing the critical factors for success for the proposed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao expansion project in Urdaibai were presented December 16 at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The first stage of feasibility studies, carried out in 2009, identified and analyzed a number of issues, including the new museum’s conceptual model and curatorial program; the legal, urban, environmental, and geological conditions of the chosen site; the [...]