$15, $10 members, Free students with valid ID and RSVP.
Limited availability. Reserve a free student ticket.

Bringing together scholars from diverse fields and experts in art and technology, this program presents new research on Gutai’s second phase in an international context. Speakers and panelists include cocurators of Gutai: Splendid Playground Ming Tiampo and Alexandra Munroe, artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, artist Otto Piene, independent scholar Reiko Tomii, and ArtForum editor Michelle Kuo.

In conjunction with Asia Week and Gutai: Splendid Playground, curators Alexandra Munroe and Ming Tiampo respond to your questions about organizing the first U.S. museum exhibition of the most influential avant-garde collective in postwar Japan. Follow #Gutai and @Guggenheim on Twitter for updates. RSVP the live event on Facebook.

$12, $8 members, free students with valid ID and RSVP. Limited availability. Reserve a free student ticket.

Danh Vo, the ninth artist to win the Hugo Boss Prize, discusses his artistic practice and exhibition at the Guggenheim with Julie Ault, an artist, writer, and curator, and Peter Broda, who cofounded the Museum of American Graffiti, now part of the Museum of the City of New York, with Martin Wong.

$20, $15 members, $10 students

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Simone Forti, Jutta Koether, Andrew Lampert, and Caitlin MacBride.

$25, $20 members

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Simone Forti, Jutta Koether, Andrew Lampert, and Caitlin MacBride. Tour is followed by a reception.

Seated: $50, $45 members, $25 students

Standing: $30, $25 members, $15 students

Box Office: 212 423 3587

Star Kyogen actor Mansai Nomura performs Japan’s oldest celebratory dance in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda with stage and costumes designed by internationally renowned artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground, Sanbaso is a tribute to the performance Ultramodern Sanbasō (1957) by Shiraga Kazuo, one of the leading figures of Japan’s avant-garde Gutai movement. Copresented by Japan Society.

Seated: $50, $45 members, $25 students

Standing: $30, $25 members, $15 students

Box Office: 212 423 3587

Star Kyogen actor Mansai Nomura performs Japan’s oldest celebratory dance in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda with stage and costumes designed by internationally renowned artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground, Sanbaso is a tribute to the performance Ultramodern Sanbasō (1957) by Shiraga Kazuo, one of the leading figures of Japan’s avant-garde Gutai movement. Copresented by Japan Society.

Seated: $50, $45 members, $25 students

Standing: $30, $25 members, $15 students

Box Office: 212 423 3587

Star Kyogen actor Mansai Nomura performs Japan’s oldest celebratory dance in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda with stage and costumes designed by internationally renowned artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground, Sanbaso is a tribute to the performance Ultramodern Sanbasō (1957) by Shiraga Kazuo, one of the leading figures of Japan’s avant-garde Gutai movement. Copresented by Japan Society.

FREE with advance registration, or $5 at the door.

A special one-time screening of Wajma (An Afghan Love Story), the most recent film written and directed by Barmak Akram. Following the screening, independent curator Leeza Ahmady and artist Mariam Ghani join Akram in a discussion about filmmaking in Afghanistan, as well as the historic context and themes of cinema from the region. English subtitles.

Program of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.

FREE with advance registration, or $5 at the door.

Wong Hoy Cheong’s work speaks to subjects of history, colonization, racial harmony, and the movement of people. In his 2010 short film Doghole, the director recounts his father’s experiences during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, and his journey to Japan years later. This screening and talk are part of a two-day symposium that continues on April 18 at the Queens Museum of Art. English subtitles.

Program of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.

FREE with advance registration, or $5 at the door.

The second day of the symposium takes place at the Queens Museum of Art. Artists, art historians, curators, and scholars address contemporary art practice in South and Southeast Asia. Tentative list of speakers includes Thomas Berghuis (Australia), Ly Daravuth (Cambodia), Gridthiya Gaweewong (Thailand), Sharmini Pereira (Sri Lanka), June Yap (Singapore/New York), and The Propeller Group (Vietnam/US). For details on the first day of the symposium, please see Wong Hoy Cheong’s artist talk on April 16.

Program of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.

$12, $8 members, free for students with valid ID.

Limited availability. Reserve a student ticket.

In her current research, Bridget Alsdorf, Princeton University, focuses on representations of theatrical audiences and crowds in fin-de-siècle France, with particular interest in art’s intersections with emerging fields of social psychology. Considering a range of artistic media, her work sheds new light on the work of Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The Annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture honors the wide-ranging career of Robert Rosenblum (1927–2006), former Guggenheim Swid Curator of 20th-Century Art, and Henry Ittelson Jr. Professor of Modern European Art, New York University, whose celebrated work included projects on Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, and the depiction of dogs in art. This series is facilitated by donors to the Robert Rosenblum Fund who are gratefully acknowledged for their generosity.

$20, $15 members, $10 students

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Shinsuke Aso, Kerstin Brästch, Eileen Quinlan, and Amy Sillman.

$25, $20 members

New York based Japanese performance artist Ei Arakawa invites painters, sculptors, dancers, filmmakers, and archivists to form a temporal group addressing Gutai today. Resulting in a performative exhibition tour where the audience will be escorted and repositioned, emphasis will be on the power dynamic within Gutai, women and men; singularity and plurality; performance and painting. Tasked to communicate the diversity of Gutai activities, each tour will journey along a different route. Participants include Ei Arakawa, Shinsuke Aso, Kerstin Brästch, Eileen Quinlan, and Amy Sillman. Tour is followed by a reception.