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Image: Collective Assembly Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim LabOctober 11, 2013–January 5, 2014
This exhibition will spotlight major themes and ideas that emerged from the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a global project focused on urban life, in each of its three locations—New York, Berlin, and Mumbai. |
Mona Hatoum, Impenetrable, 2009. Black finished steel and finished wire, 300 x 300 x 300 cm, edition 3/3. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the Collections Council; International Director’s Council; with additional funds from Anne Ames, Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, and Marcio Fainzilber 2012.10 © Mona Hatoum. Photo: Agostino Osio, Courtesy White Cube and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice Lasting ImagesOctober 14, 2013–January 12, 2014
This exhibition includes recently acquired works in a range of mediums—from film to sculpture and installation—that have not yet been shown in the United States. The artists featured use subtle, often ephemeral forms to suggest nuanced personal or historical narratives. |
Christopher Wool, Untitled, 2010. Enamel on linen, 243.8 x 198.1 cm. © Christopher Wool. Courtesy the artist Christopher WoolOctober 25, 2013–January 22, 2014At the heart of Christopher Wool’s creative project, which spans three decades of highly focused practice, is the question of how a picture can be conceived, realized, and experienced today. This retrospective will fill the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda and an adjacent gallery with a rich selection of paintings, photographs, and works on paper, forming the most comprehensive examination to date of Wool’s career. |
Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man and Mirror) from Kitchen Table Series, 1990. Gelatin silver print, 27 ¼ x 27 ¼ in. Collection of Eric and Liz Lefkofsky, 115-128.2010, promised gift to The Art Institute of Chicago © Carrie Mae Weems. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and VideoJanuary 24–May 14, 2014
Carrie Mae Weems is a socially motivated artist whose works invite contemplation of race, gender, and class. Increasingly, she has broadened her view to include global struggles for equality and justice. Comprehensive in scope, this retrospective primarily features photographs, including the groundbreaking Kitchen Table Series (1990), but also presents written texts, audio recordings, and videos. |
Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound (Velocità astratta + rumore), 1913–14. Oil on board, 54.5 x 76.5 cm. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the UniverseFebruary 21–September 1, 2014
The first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States, this multidisciplinary exhibition examines the historical sweep of the movement from its inception with F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto in 1909 through its demise at the end of World War II. |