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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent collection of Impressionist , Post-Impressionist , early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions ...
Solomon Robert Guggenheim (February 2, 1861 – November 3, 1949) was an American businessman in needlework, gold, silver, copper, and lead and an art collector. He is best known for establishing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Falaise (Sands Point, New York); [2] Murry Guggenheim House (West Long Branch, New Jersey) The Guggenheim family ( / ˈ ɡ ʊ ɡ ən h aɪ m / GUUG -ən-hyme ) is an American-Jewish family known for making their fortune in the mining industry, in the early 20th century, especially in the United States and South America.
56 years ago today on Oct. 21, 1959, the Guggenheim Museum sparked the curiosity of millions when its abstract design popped up on New York City's elite Fifth Avenue.
On October 21st in 1985, The Guggenheim Museum opened in New York on fifth avenue. The museum was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Other events on October 21st in history: 1805: The ...
The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York, United States (1937–present) [1] The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy ...
The first museum established by the foundation was The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, in New York City. This became The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952, and the foundation moved the collection into its first permanent museum
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is an exhibition that took place at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York between October 6, 2017 – January 7, 2018. The exhibition presents works by seventy-one artists and artist collectives across China and worldwide, who define contemporary experience in and of China. [1]