We invite visitors who are partially-sighted or blind to join us for an interactive sound and light workshop led by installation artist Sofia Paraskeva. This workshop will be followed by a tour and discussion of Gutai: Splendid Playground conducted through verbal imaging and touch.

FREE, but space is limited; advance RSVP is required by Monday, February 25. To RSVP, call 212 360 4355 or e-mail access@guggenheim.org.

Learn more about Mind’s Eye programs.

Beat the crowds and join fellow members for a visit to the museum before it opens to the public. Enjoy a private viewing of the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground. This exhibition is the first U.S. museum retrospective devoted to Gutai, the most influential artists collective and movement in post–World War II Japan and among the most important international avant-garde movements of the 1950s and ’60s.

Become a member today and enjoy this unique opportunity to see the museum and attend many other exclusive events.

Join Corey D’Augustine, Conservator, on a tour of Gutai: Splendid Playground. Free, no registration required. This Conservator’s Eye Tour will be ASL-interpreted.

$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.

We invite visitors who are partially-sighted or blind to join us for a tour and discussion of Gutai: Splendid Playground conducted through verbal imaging and touch.

FREE, but space is limited; advance RSVP is required by Wednesday, March 6. To RSVP, call 212 360 4355 or e-mail access@guggenheim.org.

Learn more about Mind’s Eye programs.

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.

Join Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History, Carleton University, on a tour of Gutai: Splendid Playground. Free, no registration required.

$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.

Join Lyn Hsieh, Asian Art Fellow, on a tour of Gutai: Splendid Playground. Free, no registration required.

$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.