The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library contains published resources that reflect and inform museum collections and exhibitions, with particular focus on modern and contemporary art, architecture, and photography. Collections include global Guggenheim exhibition catalogues, rare books, the Hilla Rebay Library, as well as an actively growing collection of artist monographs, art criticism and theory, reference materials, and periodicals.

Mission

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library's mission is to support the research endeavors of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's professional staff. Staff includes curators, registrars, exhibition designers, development officers, educators, and administrative staff. The Library also serves interns, volunteers, docents, and teachers at the museum.

Resources

The Library provides a library catalog and the following databases: Art Full Text, Artnet, BHA, Chicago Manual of Style, and JSTOR.

Bibliographies are lists of exhibition catalogues, books, and articles relating to topics such as the museum; recent, current, and upcoming exhibitions; and individuals of note. These bibliographies are intended as a general starting point for visitors interested in further exploring the Guggenheim Museum and its collections.

Available Bibliographies

General Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Exhibitions

Gutai: Splendid Playground
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
Zarina: Paper Like Skin
Now's the Time
Picasso Black and White
Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
Francesca Woodman
John Chamberlain: Choices
Maurizio Cattelan: All
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918 - 1936
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Kenneth Noland, 1924–2010: A Tribute
Julie Mehretu: Grey Area
Malevich in Focus: 1912–1922
Tino Sehgal
Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection
Kandinsky
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989
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Catherine Opie: American Photographer
Louise Bourgeois
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf at the Guggenheim
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945
Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting

Individuals of Note

Peggy Guggenheim
Guggenheim Family
Hilla Rebay
Frank Lloyd Wright

Various exhibition catalogues of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings from 1936 through 1939.