Guggenheim

Arts Curriculum

Exhibitions

Picasso Black and White

October 5, 2012–January 23, 2013
John Chamberlain: Choices

February 24–May 13, 2012
This exhibition comprises nearly 100 works, from Chamberlain's earliest monochromatic welded iron-rod sculptures to the large-scale foil creations of recent years.
Maurizio Cattelan: All

November 4, 2011–January 22, 2012
Maurizio Cattelan: All marks the first time that the entirety of Maurizio Cattelan’s work has been assembled into a single exhibition, with nearly 130 works ranging from the late 1980s to the present and borrowed from private and public collections around the world.
The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910–1918

February 4–June 1, 2011
More than 100 works from the museum’s holdings attest to the period of collaboration, interchange, synthesis, and innovation leading up to World War I.
Chaos and Classicism

October 1, 2010–January 9, 2011
Chaos and Classicism traces the interwar classical aesthetic as it worked its way from a poetic, mythic idea in the Parisian avant-garde; to a political, historical idea of a revived Roman Empire, under Mussolini; to a neo-Platonic High Modernism at the Bauhaus, and then, chillingly, a pseudo-biological classicism, or Aryanism, in nascent Nazi culture.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

March 26–September 1, 2010
Recent works from the museum’s permanent collection, focusing on photography, video, and performance as vehicles for revisiting the past.
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989

January 30–April 19, 2009
Examines the impact of Asian art, literature, music, and philosophy on the development of American art.
Kandinsky

September 18, 2009–January 13, 2010
A retrospective of paintings drawn from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich—the institutions with the largest collections of Kandinskys in the world.
Catherine Opie: American Photographer

September 26, 2008–January 7, 2009
A mid-career survey of artist Catherine Opie's work, featuring examples from her most important series.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

February 22, 2008–May 28, 2008
A survey of work by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang, featuring gunpowder drawings, explosion events, installations, and social projects.
Richard Prince: Spiritual America

September 28, 2007–January 9, 2008
A retrospective exhibition of work by Richard Prince, who pioneered the use of appropriation in contemporary art by taking mass-media images from popular culture.
Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History

November 17, 2006–March 28, 2007
An overview of Spanish painting focusing on the key artists of the last five centuries.
David Smith: A Centennial

February 3–May 14, 2006
An exhibition of important sculptures and drawings from throughout Smith’s 40-year career revealing his achievements in postwar American abstraction.
RUSSIA!

September 16, 2005–January 11, 2006
Explores the complex history of Russia through the lens of masterworks of Russian art from the 13th century to the present.
The Eye of the Storm: Works in situ by Daniel Buren

March 25–June 8, 2005
Buren’s work draws attention to often unnoticed formal, political, economic and ideological characteristics of specific sites. For this exhibition he selected three areas of the Guggenheim for his work, creating different perspectives and new experiences.
The Aztec Empire

October 15, 2004 – February 13, 2005
A thematic survey of Aztec art, including stone and clay sculpture, miniature gold objects, intricate turquoise mosaics, and rare pictorial manuscripts (or codices).
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present

March 5–May 19, 2004
An examination of how a “minimalist” perspective has been essential to the development of postwar artistic practices and continues to have an impact on contemporary art.
James Rosenquist: A Retrospective

October 17, 2003–January 25, 2004
A survey including paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and collages spanning four decades provides an in-depth look into the complexity of Rosenquist’s work that draws upon the iconography of advertising and mass media to conjure a sense of contemporary life and the political tenor of the times.
Selections from the Permanent Collection

Ongoing
19th- and 20th- century works from the museum’s permanent collection that are frequently on view.
Matthew Barney – The Cremaster Cycle

February 21, 2003–June 11, 2003
A site-specific installation that encapsulated the narrative of Barney’s five-part Cremaster Cycle into a cohesive whole. The Cremaster Cycle unfolds not just through Barney’s films, but also through the sculptures, photographs, drawings, and banners produced for each chapter.
Moving Pictures

June 28, 2002–January 12, 2003
Contemporary photography, film, and video from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection.
The Architecture of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Ongoing
A guide to the museum’s unique Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.