Guggenheim

$18, free for members

In celebration of the exhibitions Zarina: Paper Like Skin, Gutai: Splendid Playground, and No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia—the inaugural Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative exhibition—the next Art After Dark event will take place from 9 pm–midnight on Friday, March 8. Enjoy a private view of all exhibitions on view.

Renowned improvisational dressmaker and performer Shinbun Onna (Newspaper Woman, a.k.a. Miyuki Nishizawa) will choose the playlist and perform. Nishizawa is a student of Gutai exhibition artists Shimamoto Shōzō and Yoshihara Jirō. Known for creating large-scale works out of discarded newspaper and a fashion designer by trade, she crafts wearable creations—such as a five-story-tall dress that she has donned while suspended from a crane—that challenge scale and function. Nishizawa has performed in Italy, the Ukraine, and Pennsylvania. She appears thanks to FUSE art infrastructure, Allentown, PA.

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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.

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Patrons Circle Members are invited to a private tour of two exhibitions: The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo with Associate Curator Katherine Brinson and No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia with Curator of Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative June Yap. Reception to follow. To RSVP to this event, please email patronscircle@guggenheim.org.

$18, free for members

In celebration of the exhibitions Gutai: Splendid Playground, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia—the inaugural Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative exhibition—and The Hugo Boss Prize: Danh Vo, the next Art After Dark event will take place from 9 pm–midnight on Friday, May 3. Enjoy a private view of all exhibitions on view.

Playlist selected by The Suzan, a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based pop-rock girl band.

Proudly supported by Beck’s.

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Please join us for the members’ party and private view of James Turrell. This exhibition is James Turrell’s first in a New York museum since 1980, and focuses on the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site-specificity in his practice. At its core is a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light. One of the most dramatic transformations of the museum ever conceived, the installation reimagines Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic architecture—its openness to nature, graceful curves, and magnificent sense of space—as one of Turrell’s Skyspaces, referencing in particular his magnum opus Roden Crater (1976– ).

(Family Hour: 6–7:30 pm)

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