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Portrait of Rashid Johnson, New York, 2025 Joshua Woods / Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. A constellation of ...
She built one of the great collections of modern art, 326 paintings and sculptures that would become known as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, including works by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock ...
When the Guggenheim opened in 1959, 50 cents would get you inside the modern art museum — equivalent to just over $5 in today’s money. But on Tuesday, admission was jacked up by $5 — with th ...
They are now being sold by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to support its own mission. Sotheby’s announced the sale on Thursday. MORE: Impressionism Too Pricey? American Art Offers a Way I ...
Solomon Robert Guggenheim (1861-1949) made his fortune in mining and turned to art in a systematic way at the age of 68 in 1929. Guiding him for the next 20 years was the German-born Hilla Rebay ...
Luckily for Peggy Guggenheim, she had one. After her father’s demise aboard the Titanic, the then-teenage heiress spun her inheritance, her black-sheep status, and her passion for art and ...
ADVERTISEMENT But, outside of professional art circles, what is less well known is the singular life of the woman who made assembling the collection her life’s purpose. Peggy Guggenheim—niece ...
She was now the public face of the art world’s PR crisis. Her position at the Guggenheim was untenable. The museum commissioned an independent investigation into LaBouvier’s allegations ...
Yet, for all her influence and impact on 20th century art, the Philadelphia-born Guggenheim remained a refreshingly straightforward and guileless figure — or so say the friends and associates ...
Art has played a leading role in Bilbao’s revival, and the Guggenheim Museum has been centre stage throughout this process. Twenty-five years since it opened, Bilbao is inconceivable without it.