Peggy Guggenheim Museum offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collection

VENICE.- From October 15 2011 to January 1 2012, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Themes&Variations. First conceived in 2002 by Luca Massimo Barbero, this is the third edition of an innovative but now proven exhibition formula that offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collections, whether known or less known, by means of a dialogue with works by more contemporary artists from other collections, thus opening up new, multiple possible interpretations. Works from the early 20th c. avant-garde connect thematically in a confrontation [...]

Mike and Doug Starn’s Big Bambú on View in the Courtyard of Casa Artom on the Grand Canal

VENICE.- Mike and Doug Starn‘s Big Bambú is being presented as an official collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, a special project of GLASSTRESS. The first exhibition of the Starns’ Big Bambú series was on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last year and ranked 4th in the world for total attendance of a contemporary art exhibition in 2010 and was the 9th highest attended exhibit in the entire history of the Metropolitan. Big [...]

First Retrospective in Over Forty Years of the Work of Painter Gino Severini Opens in Paris

PARIS.- This is the first retrospective of the work of the Italian painter Gino Severini since that organised in 1967 at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris. It brings together some 70 works (original drawings, paintings…) from private collections, European museums (Triton Foundation Netherlands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, Estorick Collection in London and the Thyssen Foundation in Madrid…) and American museums including the MOMA, New York. The exhibition is on view [...]

The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

VENICE.- From January 29 through May 15, 2011, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918, curated by Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, and Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum New York. This is the first exhibition devoted to Vorticism to be presented in Italy and the first to attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions [...]

Salvador Dalí Exhibition in Milan has Welcomed More than 222,000 Visitors in Two Months

MILAN.- After over 50 years, Salvador Dalì’s genius is back in Milan: Palazzo Reale houses a great exhibition investigating the relationship between this Spanish artist and the landscape, the dream, the desire. The exhibition, made possible thanks to the extraordinary collaboration with Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalì of Figueres, counts on important loans from Italian and international museums and institutions, including the Fundaciò itself, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia of Madrid, the Dalí Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, the [...]

Modern Works by Artist Joan Miró Displayed at Metropolitan Museum with Dutch Old Master Paintings

NEW YORK, NY.- During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983) purchased postcards from the museums he visited. Two 17th-century Dutch genre scenes particularly caught his attention and served as the inspiration for a series of paintings he created that summer. The traveling exhibition Miró: The Dutch Interiors, which opens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 5, features Miró’s three “Dutch Interiors” [...]

Works by Artist Joan Miró to Be Displayed at the Metropolitan Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983) purchased postcards from the museums he visited. Two 17th-century Dutch genre scenes particularly caught his attention and served as the inspiration for a series of paintings he created that summer. The traveling exhibition Miró: The Dutch Interiors, which opens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 5, features Miró’s three “Dutch Interiors” [...]

Art Gallery in Australia Announces Exhibition of Works from Guggenheim

PERTH.- This autumn the public will have the unique opportunity of seeing world-class works of art normally on display in Venice, Italy, when the Art Gallery of Western Australia hosts Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice (October 9, 2010 – January 31, 2011), the first exhibition of a new series entitled Great Collections of the World. Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and a native of Venice, said, “The Peggy Guggenheim Collection has never previously been [...]

Paths to Abstraction Opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

SYDNEY.- One of the most ambitious exhibitions the Art Gallery of New South Wales has ever undertaken, Paths to abstraction will include more than 150 pivotal works by some of the most influential pioneers of modernism, spanning 50 years when paintings, drawings and prints edged their way by degrees towards purely non-representational images. Curator Terence Maloon has secured representative works of more than 40 of the leading artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries including Whistler, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, [...]

Exhibition in Venice Examines the Evolution of Utopian Ideas

VENICE.- From May 1 through July 25, 2010 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition Utopia Matters: from Brotherhoods to Bauhaus, curated by Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. With more than 70 works of art, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, decorative art, design, photography, and printed matter, the exhibition examines the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western artistic thought and practice, taking an international sequence of case studies [...]

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, [...]