Paris and the Avant-Garde: Masters from the Guggenheim Collection Opens

NEW YORK, NY.- As one of the final exhibitions of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection presents thirty-four works by eighteen artists from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection, including significant groups of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, and is on view from January 23 through May 12, 2010. Paris and the [...]

Paris and the Avant-Garde: Masters from the Guggenheim Collection

New York, NY – During the first decades of the twentieth century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their variegated customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest artistic developments, often fusing new elements with aspects of their respective traditions in their works. On exhibition 23 January through 12 May, 2010 at the Guggenheim Museum, NY. The artists associated with the School of Paris did not [...]