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Desire Machine Collective (Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya), <i>Residue</i>, 2009–10

Two-Day Conference at the Deutsche Guggenheim

The two-day conference on June 26 and 27 will examine the exhibition Being Singular Plural in larger contexts of artistic production and collaboration, considerations of video and film outside the black box, and infrastructural opportunities in India and beyond.
 

New Members Elected to Board of Trustees of
Guggenheim Foundation

Theodor Dalenson and Dimitris Daskalopoulos have been elected trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, following the September 23 meeting of the board.

 
Jackson Pollock, Untitled (Green Silver), ca. 1949

Premiere Guggenheim Exhibition Opens in Abu Dhabi

The exhibition is part of a program of art and cultural development leading up to the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in 2013.
 

Open to Dreaming

Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, recently spoke to Claudia Bodin, American correspondent of art—das Kunstmagazin, on his new appointment, the Berlin art scene, and the future of the institution.

 

A Passionate Collector and New Trustee

This fall, the Board of Trustees welcomed its newest member—passionate collector, patron, and champion of the arts Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth of Helsinki, Finland.
 

Juan Ignacio Named Chief Officer for Global Strategies

Vidarte was previously Director General of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and will retain this position, dividing his time between Bilbao and New York.

 

Richard Armstrong named new director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Richard Armstrong has been appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Armstrong was previously the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

 

Abu Dhabi Developments

The Abu Dhabi Curatorial Advisory group, made up of ten of the most significant curators and administrators from the region and its environs met in New York July 24–26 for a discussion to help shape the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. The meeting proved to be enormously valuable in understanding the potential promise of a major, global, contemporary institution in the Middle East.

 

Zaha Hadid to Develop Design for Proposed Museum in Vilnius

April 23, 2008

Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize–winning architect and subject of a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, has won the architectural competition for a proposed new museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.