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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Lectures
Sculptural Views
Cremaster 3: The Process of Making, February 22
Nancy Spector, Gabe Bartalos, Linda LaBelle, Matt Wallin, and Matthew D. Ryle

Performance and the Object, March 25
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jens Hoffmann, Amelia Jones, and Frazer Ward

Narrative Sculpture and Sculptural Narratives, April 8
Louise Neri, Richard Flood, and Molly Nesbit

Conversations with Contemporary Artists
Matthew Barney, March 4
Olafur Eliasson, April 24
Liam Gillick, May 6
Brian Alfred, July 8
Richard Phillips, July 22
Tom Friedman, September 30
Maria Marshall, November 4
Anri Sala, November 18

Mediated Discourses: Film, Video, and Installation Practices
Constructing Narrative, March 26
John G. Hanhardt

Shaping Space and Time, April 16
John G. Hanhardt

Creating a Scene, April 30
John G. Hanhardt

Malevich Revisited
Malevich, Suprematism, and the Rhetoric of Non-Objective Art, June 24
Matthew Drutt

Malevich's School: From Individuality to 'Collective Creation', July 1
Nina Gourianova

Another Malevich: A Cinematic Geometry, July 29
Margarita Tupitsyn

Pop Polemics
Compassion (and Withholding), October 1
John G. Hanhardt and Lauren Berlant

Why Do We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From? October 8
John G. Hanhardt and David Simpson

The Experimental Disposition: Nietzschean Proving Grounds, October 15
John G. Hanhardt and Avital Ronell

Good, Better, Best: Perspectives on Connoisseurship
Photography: Likable, Important, or Controversial? October 7
Vicki Goldberg

Taking Stands, November 11
Arthur Danto

The Good, the Bad, and the Very Bad: A Year in the Life of an Art Critic, December 2
Jerry Saltz

Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture
Lost in the Stars: Allegorical Journeys in Sixties Pop from Warhol to Dylan, October 21
Thomas Crow

Panel Discussions
Contemporary Art and the Language of Advertising, October 28
Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons, and Richard Phillips

Art and Science Fiction: Critical Visions of the Future, December 9
Samuel Delany, Beryl Korot, and Mariko Mori

James Rosenquist in Perspective, December 16
A Conversation with James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg. Moderated by exhibition curators Sarah Bancroft and Walter Hopps.

Public & Artist Interactions
Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle
Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom, Saturdays March 1—April 26
Linda LaBelle

Prosthetic Makeup and Special Effects Seminar, March 15
Gabe Bartalos

Digital Effects in Contemporary Art, April 12
Matt Wallin

Fabricating Cremaster 3, May 10
Matthew D. Ryle

James Rosenquist: A Retrospective
The Original Originator: Professional Beginnings for Professional Artists, November 1, 8, 15, and December 13
James Rosenquist

Continuing Education
Learning Photoshop Through Art
Session #1: February 19, 26, and March 5 and 12
Session #2: August 6, 13, 20, and 27
Session #3: October 22, 29, and November 5 and 12
Al Doyle, Director of Academic Technology, St. Bernard's School

Introduction to Modern Art, Weds July 9-30
Tracey Bashkoff and Lisa Panzera

Drawing the Guggenheim, Sats July 12–August 2
Dawn Clements

Introduction to Contemporary Art, Weds October 22–November 12
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, producer, writer, and current member of the graduate faculty at the School of Visual Arts

Contemporary Art Reading Groups
The Role of the Document, March 12
Pablo Helguera, reading: Paul Schimmel

Contemporary Mythologies and the Visual Arts, April 2
Pablo Helguera, reading: Burton Feldman

The Cremaster Glossary, April 23
Pablo Helguera, reading: Matthew Barney

The Executioner's Song, May 7
Pablo Helguera, reading: Norman Mailer

Reconsidering Malevich, July 2
Pablo Helguera, reading: Kazimir Malevich

Vasily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art, August 6
Pablo Helguera, reading: Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Verg

For Families
My iMovie at the Guggenheim, March 29
Rosanna Flouty

Portraiture in Photoshop 6.0, April 26 and May 3
Rosanna Flouty

Photoshop Pop! Digital Workshop, November 8
Rosanna Flouty

Family Day at the Guggenheim, May 17

Summerscapes for Youth: Studio Art at the Guggenheim Museum
Program #1: July 14, 15, 16, and 18
or
Program #2: August 4, 11, 18, and 25

Summerscapes for Pre-teens: Studio Art at the Guggenheim Museum
Program #1: July 28, 29, 30, and Aug 1
or
Program #2: August 6, 13, 20, and 27

Exploring Rosenquist's World, December 6

Family Highlights Tour, December 13

For Students and Educators
For Students
Art After School at the Guggenheim: Ages 8–11
Session #1: March 4 and 11, April 1, 8, 15, and 29, and May 6 and 13
Session #2: October 7, 14, 21, 28, and November 4, 11, 18, and 25

After School High School Animation Program, Mons and Weds March 10–May 17

Animating Pop: From Studio to Screen: Digital After-School Program for High School Students, October 20, 27, and November 3, 10, 17, and 19
Rosanna Flouty

For Educators
Educator's Viewing of Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, March 4

Word and Image: Creative Writing with Contemporary Art, March 11
Reagan Kiser

Teaching Teens with the Art of Matthew Barney, April 5
Reagan Kiser

Architecture as Art, May 3
Sharon Vatsky

Teaching Through Art, May 29
Rebecca Shulman Herz

Connecting Collections: Three Museums Focus on Modernism, July 21–25
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art present a summer seminar for educators.

Off the Wall: Modern Masters in the Classroom, September 20
Reagan Kiser

Open House for Educators, October 28

Icons of the Times: The Art of James Rosenquist, November 8
Reagan Kiser

Creative Writing in the Museum, December 9
Reagan Kiser

Works & Process
Dance as Ever, January 26 and 27
New York City Ballet Principal Peter Boal performs choreographer Leigh Witchel's repertory with commentary by Nancy Reynolds of the Balanchine Foundation.

My Life With Albertine, February 2 and 3
Richard Nelson and Ricky Ian Gordon discuss the evolution of their new musical based on sections of Marchcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Dancers and Competitions, February 9 and 10
ABT dancers perform classical and contemporary solos and pas de deux, and discuss the pressure of competition and its impact on their careers.

A Little Night Music, February 24
New York City Opera cast members perform excerpts of the 1990 production. Stephen Sondheim, Director Scott Ellis, and Choreographer Susan Stroman participate in a panel discussion.

Tiffany Mills Company, March 2 and 3
Choreographer Tiffany Mills with experimental composer John Zorn. Choreographer Trisha Brown joins a panel moderated by George Steel.

The Ensemble Alternance, March 9 and 10
The evening features Philippe Manoury's Ultima, Gestes, and excerpts from his opera K, as well as Philippe Schoeller's Incantations.

Marc-André Dalbavie, March 15 and 16
Marc-André Dalbavie conducts the Paris Orchestra in a concert of his own works with performances by the group Lionheart and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt.

Little Women, March 17
NYCO cast members perform selections of Composer Marchk Adamo's opera Little Women and Composer John Corigliano moderates the panel.

Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, March 30 and 31
Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler discuss their collaboration.

Look Again: ABT's Corps de Ballet, April 6 and 7
American Ballet Theatre mistress Susan Jones leads the corps in a rehearsal.

A Rose by Any Other Name, April 27 and 28
Guillaume Graffin, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, examines Romeo and Juliet in theater and in dance.

Compañia de la Danza Narciso Medina, May 4 and 5
Cuban choreographer Narciso Medina's company performs new works.

Richard Festinger and Denis Johnson, May 18 and 19
Composer Richard Festinger premieres new work with text by novelist and poet Denis Johnson. Soprano Amy Burton and the Group for Contemporary Music perform.

William Christie: An Interpreter's Methods, June 12
Conductor William Christie leads a group of 20 singers and soloists from France's top vocal and period-instrument ensemble Les Arts Florissants.

Two Takes on The Orphan of Zhao, June 29 and 30
Director Chen Shi-Zheng presents excerpts from his two new versions of a classic Chinese drama of moral consciousness and revenge.

Lucia di Lammermoor, September 8
New York City Opera singers perform and join in a panel discussion moderated by WQXR announcer Nimet Habachy.

Bright Lights, Big City, September 14 and 15
Based on Jay McInerney's novel, the musical was composed by Paul Scott Goodman. A Broadway cast performs and McInerney and Goodman discuss their work.

La Finta Giardiniera, September 22
New York City Opera members perform excerpts and WQXR announcer Nimet Habachy moderates a panel discussion.

Antony Tudor Ballets, October 28 and 29
ABT dancers perform examples of early and late Tudor works and join in a discussion highlighting his influence.

Stanley Kunitz: A Celebration, October 19 and 20
Kunitz reads from his work and jazz vocalist Andy Bey joins the Group for Contemporary Music for this premiere performance.

Ned Rorem: 80th Birthday Celebration, November 24
Composer Ned Rorem's monumental Evidence of Things Not Seen is performed by The New York Music Festival of Song.

Balanchine's Lost Choreography, November 16 and 17
Frederic Franklin and Marchia Tallchief recreate lost choreography from two of Balanchine ballets. New York City Ballet's principle dancer Nikolaj Hübbe and others perform original pas de deux. Dance scholar Nancy Reynolds leads a discussion.

Alladeen, December 23 and 24
The Builders Association and Motiroti preview a multimedia performance as Director Marchianne Weems resets the familiar story of Aladdin.

Professor Murray Gell-Mann, December 7 and 8
Professor Murray Gell-Mann discusses the delicate interplay of regularities and randomness in the sciences, the arts, and everyday life.

The Further Adventures of Monkey, December 14 and 15
Featuring excerpts of composer Fred Ho and director Christopher Mattaliano's new show.

Choral Music for the Holidays, December 20 and 21
Featuring conductor George Steel and the highly acclaimed Vox Vocal Ensemble's 16-member a cappella chorus.


Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Free Venetian Week
During this week special education programs and tours were organized for the Venetian public. Tours included Themes in Modernism: A Closer Look at the Permanent Collection, Presentazione: Peggy in Venice, Visita Guidata: Peggy and Kiesler: Collezionista e visionario, and Focus on Venetian postwar painting.

For Educators and Students
Children's Workshops: Kids' Day
Cubist Portraits, January 12
Looking at Cubism and Futurism, January 26
Animal Hide and Seek, February 9
Carnival Special: Let's Make a Mask, February 23 and March 2
Let's Make a Sculpture, March 9
Collage Making, March 23
Automatic Max, April 13
Let's Make a Portrait, April 27
Creatures of the Forest, May 11
Musical Painting, May 25
Figures and Faces, June 8
Techniques and Textures, June 22
Dance With Pollock, July 13
People and Emotions in Art, July 27
Pasta Mobile, August 10
Happy Birthday Peggy, August 24
Scrape Like a Surrealist, Paste Like a Cubist, September 14
Make a Cubist Portrait, September 28
Create a Calder Style Underwater World, October 12
Fun With Futurism! Create Speed and Motion With Your Own Flip Book, October 26
Animal Hide and Seek, November 2
Supersedie - Crazy Chairs, November 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, and 23
Collages, December 7
Where Do All the Animals Live? December 14
Der Blaue Reuter in Spiritual Landscape, December 21
Festival Calendar for 2004, December 28

A scuola di Guggenheim Project
This project promotes art education within the Veneto Schools through the collaboration with school teachers from the Veneto region. The project features a series of seminars for teachers held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, educational activities in the schools, and tours of the collection. The program concluded with a conference highlighting projects completed by the participating schools and reflected on the success of this new educational initiative.

2003 Concerts
Nicoletta Vallorani and Marcello Fois, May 24
Barbara Garlaschelli, June 7
Guido Bombardieri and Dudù Kuoate, June 28
Barbara Casini, Chico Barque and Tom Jobim, July 5
E.W.E. M'Langa, July 12
Giancarlo Mellano Compadres, July 19
Nuevo Tango, July 26
Maurizio Camardi and Kammerensemble, August 2
Manomanouche, August 9

Internship Program 2003 Seminars
Lucio Fontana, January 17
The Venice Biennale 1948 and 1950, Adrian Duran, January 22
Women and Surrealism, Alex Cardon, January 24
The Foundations of Futurism, Jessica Palmieri, January 25
The Guggenheim Bilbao, Saioa Zubi, January 26
Pablo Picasso vs. Piet Mondrian, Sol Grande, January 30
Gino Severini, Jonathan Kinkley, February 7
What is Viewing Art?, Tomoko Shinagawa, February 22
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Eva Armbruster, March 6
Architect Daniel Liebeskind, Ilaria Simeoni, March 10
Emilio Vedova, Marco Minuz, March 10
Concepts of Modern Art, Natali Egana, March 16
Boccioni's Women, Jennifer Griffiths, March 17
Robert Motherwell, Stephanie Belmer, March 22
Postmodern, Aaron Richmond, March 22
Art of This Century, Elena Minarelli, March 24
Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, Matilde Campbell, March 26
Photography: Minor White, Andrew Doak, March 27
Seventeenth-Century Japanese Portraiture, Emi Nam, March 28
Organization of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Giuditta Cravato, March 30
Museum Management and Marketing, Dagmar Wunderlich, April 13
Problems Facing the Conservation of Modern Art, Katrien Martens, April 16
Polish Art Deco, Kasia Soschenko, April 17
Courtesans in Sixteenth-Century Venice, Amanda Beattie, April 21
Degenerate Art, Kathleen Schroter, April 24
Interpreting Modern Art: A Philosophical Discussion, Irene La Scala and Chiara di Benedetto, April 27
Judy Chicago — A Feminist Critic of Museums, Ted Adams, May 2
Eva Hesse: Minimalist or Feminist, Sophie Evans Carr, May 6
Tracy Emin: Words of Art, Arantxa Martinez Antonio, May 11
Women Photographers from the Yale School of Photographers, Jaclyn Mayer, May 12
When the Artists Want to be Architects: A Case Study in Thailand, Korawan Kantho, May 22
Contemporary Thai Architecture: Thai Painting Centre, Pattarin Jindawattananon, May 22
Pegeen Vail, Brent Morrison, May 25
Andrea Palladio, Laura Lazzari, May 25
Cubism and The New Geometries, Danielle Unger, May 29
The Role Of The Artist During The War, Annie Jilbert, June 3
The Cloistered Life and Fantastic Art of Joseph Cornell, Genevieve Hendricks, June 7
Redefining the American Landscape in Early American Art and Technological Sublime, Geanna Barlaam, June 15
Sex and Eroticism in Twentieth-Century Art, Marc Manuel Barrio Gasquez, June 15
Miro and Politics, Mireia Lluch Robert, June 22
Takashi Murakami: Nihan-ga to Superflat Monogram, Allison Satre, June 22
Odd Nerdrum: Art of Kitsch?, Ingrid Dragsund, June 23
Schweisser: Painter, Architect, and Interior Designer, Elena Brandstetter, June 26
Human Other, Devine Queen, Catherine O'Reilly, June 26
Cultural Pessimism, Josh Lilley, June 26
Klimt's Women: Images of Fin-de-Siècle Femininity, Megan McCarthy, June 29
Gerhard Richter: Painting Photos, Elisa Schaar, June 29
David Smith and Technology, Ivana Salander, July 4
Tibetan Art and Political Problems, Sara Buoso, July 6
Building Participation in the Arts, Gina Paese, July 9
Art as Experience, Mike Bianco, July 13
Barbara Kruger: Refusing to Play Nature, Katie Fitzpatrick, July 14
Museum as a Dictator of History, Sean Neal, July 20
Dali's Films, Isabel Sinistore, July 21
An Examination of Mexican Art, Armando Miguelez Giambuno, July 21
Robert Motherwell's Defenition of Modern Art, Nesta Mayo, July 25
A Visit to the Studio of M. Courbet, Roger Kanholz, July 25
Lithography: The Pressure's On, Leela Logan, July 27
Mu Xin: Memory in Landscape, Maya Chandra, July 27
Der Reichstag: Art and Architecture, Elke Seebauer, July 28
Futurism in Art and History, Anna Giunci, July 28
Redressing Museology in Contemporary Australian Art, Kate Gregory, August 1
Prophets of Provocation: Censorship for the Shock, Letita Ivinus, August 7
Disabled People in Museums, Giorgos Adamidis, August 10
Sponsorship and Conflicts in Museums, Vanessa Abi-Rached, August 14
Helene Scherfbeck, Annina Siren, August 15
Helio Oiticica and the Brazilian Avant-Garde, Marina Posniak, August 18
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Anna Longo, August 19
Pollock: Greatest American Painter Ever?, Natalie Roncone, August 21
Norwegian Evocative Landscapes, Maria Johannesen, August 22
Boris Cvjetanovic: Croatian Representative at Fiftieth Venice Biennale, Lovorka Magas, August 27
Lanta Village 2050, August 28
Eva Hesse, Anna Gritz, September 11
Pablo Picasso: The Poet, Charlotte Goodhew, September 14
Tate Modern, Abigail Price, September 17
Museum Architecture Today, Maria Espinosa, September 21
Futurism and Dynamism, Naomi Flatt and Eleonora Charans, September 25
Henriette Christiansen, October 5
Angela Rizzetto and Julia Trolp, October 13
Il Giardino Daniel Spoerri, Claudia Sandeman, October 16
Genoveva Ortiz and Nicolette Cavaleros, October 17
Manuel Cruz Cerezo and Veronica Lazzaro, October 19
Piazzo San Marco and Samara Poplack: Adrian Piper, Alice Bettiolo, October 23
Naomi Flatt, October 24
Peggy Guggenheim's Eye: Renaissance Origins for a Modern Collection, Alexa Greist, November 5
Artist Talk, Tanya Steinberg, November 13
Artist Talk, Gonzalo Nicuesa Nuin, November 13
Purism, Alex Willett, November 17
The Cone Sisters, Rosalie Parker, November 17
Ingrid Greefield, November 26
Elisa-Carolina Haidbauer and Tatiana Zammatteo, November 27
Whistler in Venice, Rachel Leverenz, December 5
Bridget Riley, Evi-Elli La Valle, December 5
SRGF and Collection, Guido Faggion, December 17
From Brancusi to "Sensation", Sarah Scandiffio, December 17
Douglas Cooper and Peggy Guggenheim, Jocelyn Green, December 18
Hungarian Activism, Eszter Toth and Elena Boldrin, December 19
Modernist Villas in Zagreb, Vanja Zanko, December 26
Ivan Mestrovic, Tanja Trska, December 26


Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
For Educators
Art Through the Ages Educator Viewing, April 2
American Pop Icons Educator Viewing, June 11 and 18

Workshops
Nevada Alliance Art Education Workshop, August 13 and 14

Politics, Poetry and Pop! Teacher Workshop, September 13 and October 4
Anita Getzler, Pamela Mains

CONTACT! School Tour Program
Art Through the Ages: Masterpieces of Painting from Titian to Picasso, November 2002–April 2003
American Pop Icons, May 15–November 2, 2003
A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko, November 2003–July 2004

Outreach
Cashman Middle School
American Pop Icons: 21st Century Community Learning Center After School Program, October 2003