BMW Guggenheim Lab to Launch in New York in August, will Then Travel Worldwide

NEW YORK, NY.- The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile laboratory that will travel to nine major cities worldwide over six years. Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation, and ultimately the creation of forward-thinking solutions for urban life. Over the [...]

More than 130 International Artists and Writers Threaten Boycott of Guggenheim in UAE

DUBAI (AP).- More than 130 international artists and writers vowed Thursday to boycott a branch of the Guggenheim Museum under construction in Abu Dhabi, unless authorities do more to protect the rights of workers on the site. Human Rights Watch released a statement from the artists saying they will refuse to cooperate with the project until Guggenheim and Abu Dhabi authorities ensure that workers are reimbursed for any recruitment fees they paid and hire “a reputable independent monitor” that will [...]

Art student damages Guggenheim painting in knife attack

Bilbao, Spain – A 25-year-old art student Friday attacked a painting by 17th Century Dutch artist Jan Victor with a knife before a guard managed to subdue him, police said in Bilbao. The attack at the Guggenheim museum in the northern Spanish city was on the painting titled ‘Boas Assumes the Legacy of Elimelech,’ one of 130 works by Dutch and Flemish artists in the museum’s collection. Jan Victors (before 1619, Amsterdam-after 1676, East Indies) Boas Assumes the Legacy of [...]

Guggenheim to Present New Site-Specific Installation by Ryan Gander

NEW YORK, NY- From October 1, 2010, to January 9, 2011, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Intervals: Ryan Gander, the third installment of its contemporary art series designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. For his Intervals project, Ryan Gander (b. 1976, Chester, United Kingdom) has created a new, site-specific installation for the museum’s Aye Simon Reading Room. Organized by Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator, this exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Public Art Fund’s [...]

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 [...]

Guggenheim Exhibition Explores Memory, Trauma and Return to the Past

NEW YORK, NY.- Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. From March 26 to September 6, 2010, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, an exhibition that documents this obsession, examining myriad ways [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]