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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

View from [[Fifth Avenue]] The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. It was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim. It continues to be operated and owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

The museum's building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, drew controversy for the unusual shape of its display spaces and took 15 years to design and build; it was completed in 1959. It consists of a six-story, bowl-shaped main gallery to the south, a four-story "monitor" to the north, and a ten-story annex to the northeast. A six-story helical ramp extends along the main gallery's perimeter, under a central ceiling skylight. The Thannhauser Collection is housed within the top three stories of the monitor, and there are additional galleries in the annex and a learning center in the basement. The museum building's design was controversial when it was completed but was widely praised afterward. The building underwent extensive renovations from 1990 to 1992, when the annex was built, and it was renovated again from 2005 to 2008.

The museum's collection has grown over the decades and is founded upon several important private collections, including those of Guggenheim, Karl Nierendorf, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Justin Thannhauser, Rebay, Giuseppe Panza, Robert Mapplethorpe and the Bohen Foundation. The collection, which includes around 8,000 works , is shared with sister museums in Bilbao, Spain and Venice, Italy. In 2023, nearly 861,000 people visited the museum. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Francis Picabia / by Camfield, William A.

    Published 1970
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    Futurism: a modern focus : the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection, Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin.

    Published 1973
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    Guggenheim Museum collection A to Z /

    Published 2001
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    Enzo Cucchi / by Waldman, Diane

    Published 1986
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    Felix Gonzalez-Torres / by González-Torres, Félix, 1957-

    Published 1995
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    Picasso and the age of iron /

    Published 1993
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    Jenny Holzer / by Waldman, Diane

    Published 1997
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    Mark Rothko in New York / by Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970

    Published 1994
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    7 easy pieces / by Abramović, Marina

    Published 2007
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    The Guggenheim Museum Collection : paintings, 1880-1945 /

    Published 1976
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    Brice Marden : [catalogue of an exhibition], the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. by Marden, Brice, 1938-2023

    Published 1975
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    Josef Albers : a retrospective / by Albers, Josef

    Published 1988
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    Before Picasso, after Miro : [exhibition, June 21, 1960 /

    Published 1960
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    Julio Gonzalez : a retrospective, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York / by Rowell, Margit

    Published 1983
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    Gauguin and the decorative style : [exhibition.

    Published 1966
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    Mario Merz / by Celant, Germano

    Published 1989
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    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

    Published 1995
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    Fellini! / by Mollica, Vincenzo

    Published 2003
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    Josef Albers : glass, color, and light. by Albers, Josef

    Published 1994
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    Joan Miró; magnetic fields / by Krauss, Rosalind E.

    Published 1972
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