WORKS & PROCESS, THE PERFORMING ARTS SERIES AT THE GUGGENHEIM, ANNOUNCES 2012 FALL SEASON

Season Highlights:



Pacific Northwest Ballet: New York Season Preview

New York City Ballet, featuring choreography by Justin Peck with music by Sufjan Stevens

American Ballet Theatre, featuring choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest, directed by Robert Lepage

Desire Caught by the Tail: A play by Pablo Picasso

Royal Danish Ballet: La Bayadère

The Rodin Project, featuring choreography by Russell Maliphant





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(NEW YORK, NY – August 13, 2012) — Works & Process at the Guggenheim is pleased to announce its 2012 fall season. Since 1984, the performing arts series has championed new works, offered audiences unprecedented access to leading creators and performers, and hosted receptions for the audiences and artists. Each intimate, 80-minute performance uniquely combines artistic creation and stimulating conversation and takes place in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed, 285-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater. A reception for the audience and artists follows most programs. Described by the New York Times as “a popular series devoted to shedding light on the creative process,” Works & Process is produced by founder Mary Sharp Cronson. Past performance highlights can be viewed at youtube.com/worksandprocess.



Lead funding provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation with additional support from The Christian Humann Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.







2012 Fall Season Schedule





Pacific Northwest Ballet

New York Season Preview

Sun, Sept 9, 7:30 pm Mon, Sept 10, 3 and 7:30 pm

For 3 pm matinee, enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St; no reception

Pacific Northwest Ballet principals Maria Chapman, Carla Körbes, Seth Orza, and Lesley Rausch, and company dancers will perform excerpts from PNB’s upcoming City Center season and other works, including George Balanchine’s Apollo, Agon, The Four Temperaments, and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. Artistic Director Peter Boal will share his perspective on dancing, being coached in, and staging Apollo.



3 pm matinee performance (no reception): $25, $20 members



A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Sept 9, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.



New York City Ballet

Choreography by Justin Peck with music by Sufjan Stevens

Sun and Mon, Sept 23 and 24, 7:30 pm

New York City Ballet principals Ashley Bouder, Joaquin De Luz, Robert Fairchild, Craig Hall, Teresa Reichlen, and Janie Taylor will perform excerpts from the October 5 world premiere of choreographer Justin Peck’s new work, featuring music by singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Commissioned by NYCB, corps de ballet member Peck will discuss his creative process, including his collaboration with Stevens on a new orchestration for the production.



American Ballet Theatre

Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

Sun and Mon, Sept 30 and Oct 1, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

Heralded by the New York Times as the choreographer who “has arrived to revitalize ballet,” Alexei Ratmansky was named American Ballet Theatre’s Artist in Residence in 2009. Since then, he has created six works for the company, including ABT’s latest production of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird. ABT’s renowned dancers will perform a survey of Ratmansky’s work, and Ratmansky will join members of ABT’s artistic team to discuss his career and creative process.



A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Sept 30, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.



The Metropolitan Opera

The Tempest, directed by Robert Lepage

Mon, Oct 8, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

Met artists will perform excerpts from composer Thomas Adès’s modern opera The Tempest, directed by Robert Lepage, prior to its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Lepage, who has directed a wide range of Shakespearean works around the globe and recently staged Wagner’s four-part epic Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Met, will discuss his approach to the Bard’s “box full of magic tricks.” Met General Manager Peter Gelb will moderate the discussion.



A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.



New Production

Desire Caught by the Tail: A play by Pablo Picasso

Sun and Mon, Oct 14 and 15, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

While in occupied Paris in mid-January 1941, Pablo Picasso put down the brush and took up the pen for four days to write Desire Caught by the Tail. This rarely seen Surrealist play on the hardships of World War II was first presented on March 19, 1944, as a reading featuring artists and friends. On the occasion of the Guggenheim’s Picasso Black and White exhibition, on view October 5, 2012–January 23, 2013, Works & Process, with the assistance of Angela Westwater, founding partner of Sperone Westwater, will bring together a cast of artists for two special performances directed by SITI Company’s Anne Bogart.



Columbia University Brain Month

Professor Charles Zuker: Food, Taste, and the Brain

Sat, Oct 20, 7:30 pm

Columbia University Professor Charles Zuker will present a lecture exploring how taste is detected by the tongue and decoded by the brain to create an internal representation of the outside world. Zucker will discuss how our sense of taste is a specialized chemosensory system that evaluates food and drink. Audience members are invited to view the Picasso Black and White exhibition following the lecture, until 10 pm.



Royal Danish Ballet

La Bayadère

Sun, Oct 21, 7:30 pm Mon, Oct 22, 3 and 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

The Royal Danish Ballet celebrates the 135th anniversary of La Bayadère, long a treasure of Russian repertoire, with a new production by Artistic Director Nikolaj Hübbe, debuting this November in Copenhagen. Prior to the premiere, Hübbe will share his staging ideas, Royal Danish Ballet dancers will perform excerpts, and members of the creative team, including stage designer Richard Hudson, will discuss their creative process. This program is made possible with assistance from Arlene C. Cooper.



7:30 pm performances: $50, $45 members

3 pm matinee performance (no reception): $40, $35 members



A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Oct 21, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.



Minnesota Opera

Doubt

Sun and Mon, Nov 4 and 5, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

Works & Process will present the only New York preview of Douglas J. Cuomo’s opera Doubt, based on the Pulitzer and Tony Award–winning play by John Patrick Shanley. Excerpts will be performed and arts essayist Robert Marx will moderate a discussion with the creative team, including Cuomo, Shanley, and director Kevin Newbury, prior to the January 2013 world premiere at the Minnesota Opera.



A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed on Sun, Nov 4, at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.



The Rodin Project

Choreography by Russell Maliphant

Mon, Dec 3, 7:30 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St

For one night only and prior to its Joyce Theater premiere, choreographer Russell Maliphant will share insights, film extracts, and excerpts from The Rodin Project, a Sadler’s Wells/Russell Maliphant Production, his latest commission inspired by the works of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. For this project, Maliphant draws on the high-energy talents of extraordinary performers and a commissioned score by Russian composer Alexander Zekke to create a movement vocabulary influenced by popping, breaking, and contemporary dance, which he integrates with his own language of flow, form, and dynamics.



$50. Ticket package includes the Works & Process Dec 3 performance and a Joyce Theater Section B ticket to a performance of among the following dates: Wed, Dec 5, 7:30 pm; Thurs–Sat, Dec 6–8, 8 pm; Sun, Dec 9, 2 pm.



A live broadcast of this performance will be streamed at ustream.tv/worksandprocess.



New Visual Art Commission

Peter & The Wolf

Dec 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 2:30 and 4 pm

Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St; no reception

Isaac Mizrahi will narrate Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic, as George Manahan conducts the Juilliard Ensemble. Artist Will Cotton will bring the production to life with a newly commissioned installation, in which the familiar characters are set within a gingerbread chalet. Audience members are invited to view the artwork on stage following the program.



Rotunda Holiday Concert

Sun and Mon, Dec 16 and 17, 8 pm

In what has become a revered annual tradition, George Steel conducts the Vox Vocal Ensemble’s performance of joyous holiday music in the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda.



$10, $8 members. Advance tickets are required for entry, access is limited to only the rotunda floor, and capacity is restricted due to the Picasso Black and White exhibition. Doors will open at 7:50 pm.



Location: Peter B. Lewis Theater, unless otherwise noted

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street

Subway – 4, 5, 6 train to 86th Street

Bus – M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus on Madison or Fifth Avenue



Tickets: $35/$30 Members, unless otherwise noted

$10 Student Rush tickets available one hour prior to each performance if space allows

(for students under 25 with valid ID)

Season tickets on sale August 13

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Guggenheim Exhibition Schedule 2010–11

KANDINSKY
Through January 13, 2010
No artist epitomizes the character of the Guggenheim Museum quite like Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky. His history is closely intertwined with that of the institution, and the Guggenheim has collected his work in-depth since its founding. Presented to coincide with the museum’s 50th Anniversary, this full-scale retrospective of Kandinsky’s oeuvre is the first in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim completed its trio of groundbreaking exhibitions on the artist’s life and work in Munich, Moscow, and Paris. The Guggenheim; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich—the three institutions that own the greatest concentration of the artist’s work in the world—have partnered to assemble this presentation of nearly 100 paintings from their renowned collections and from significant loans from private and public holdings. Complemented by more than 60 works on paper from the collections of the Guggenheim and Hilla von Rebay foundations, Kandinsky offers a chronological survey of the artist’s work through a selection of his most important canvases, including examples from his series of Improvisations, Impressions, and Compositions, and reexamines the geographic and time-based divisions traditionally applied to his work. The unprecedented collaborative efforts of the Guggenheim, Pompidou, and Lenbachhaus have brought together works that have rarely traveled. The New York presentation is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, with Karole Vail, Assistant Curator.

Organized in cooperation with the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Generous support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Baibakov Art Projects.

Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The Leadership Committee with founding support from Nicki and Ira Harris is gratefully acknowledged.

GABRIELE MÜNTER AND VASILY KANDINSKY, 1902–14: A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
Through January 13, 2010
Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902–14: A Life in Photographs presents German artist Gabriele Münter’s photographs (along with a selection taken by her companion, Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky), recording the years they lived, traveled, and worked together between 1902 and 1914. Private and documentary images from their life in Germany and their travels in Europe and northern Africa, as well as portraits taken with friends and colleagues offer a fascinating glimpse into the artists’ private and public personas. Gabriele Münter and Vasily Kandinsky, 1902–14: A Life in Photographs is organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

PAIRED, GOLD: FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES AND RONI HORN
Through January 6, 2010
Bringing together two important works from the permanent collection for the first time, this exhibition illuminates the profound artistic dialogue between Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn. Suspended from the ceiling, the new acquisition “Untitled” (Golden) (1995) by Gonzalez-Torres acts as a site of passage, a shimmering curtain of golden beads opening onto Horn’s delicate gold floor piece, Gold Field (1980–82). The paired works reflect a critical engagement with the legacy of Minimalism and the emotive possibilities of form. This exhibition is organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator.

INTERVALS: KITTY KRAUS
Through January 6, 2010
Berlin-based Kitty Kraus has been invited to exhibit her work for the second installment of Intervals, a new contemporary art series designed to showcase experimental projects by emerging artists and reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. Kraus works in a spare, elegiac vocabulary of monochrome forms and humble materials such as lightbulbs, ice, mirrors, and glass. For Intervals, Kraus has installed two sculptures in the Annex Level 5 gallery of the museum. This exhibition is organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator; Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Manager of Curatorial Affairs; and Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator.

THE DEUTSCHE BANK SERIES AT THE GUGGENHEIM
ANISH KAPOOR: MEMORY
Through March 28, 2010
With the inauguration of the Deutsche Guggenheim in 1997, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank launched a unique and ambitious program of contemporary art commissions that has enabled the Deutsche Guggenheim to act as a catalyst for artistic production. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the 14th project to be completed since the program’s inception and is the foundation’s first collaboration with the artist. On view in New York after its Berlin debut, the commission demonstrates Kapoor’s ability to create a site-specific work that engages with two very different exhibition spaces. Born in 1954 in Bombay, the artist has lived in London since the early 1970s and quickly rose to prominence in the 1980s. Best known for his explorations of the concept of the void and his use of color and scale, he has since redefined contemporary sculpture. Memory is a remarkable new work in industrial Cor-Ten steel that transforms the galleries through shifts in physical, mental, and architectural scale. This exhibition is organized by Sandhini Poddar, Assistant Curator of Asian Art.

Made possible by Deutsche Bank.

Additional support provided by the International Director’s Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

The Leadership Committee is gratefully acknowledged.

PARIS AND THE AVANT-GARDE: MODERN MASTERS FROM THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
January 23–May 12, 2010
During the first decades of the 20th century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their various customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest developments, often fusing new elements with aspects of their respective traditions in their works. While they did not adhere to one fixed style, typical of a “school,” they united in defiance of academicism. Their artistic innovations, including Cubism and Surrealism, profoundly influenced generations of artists. Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection will feature some 30 paintings by such artists as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and Yves Tanguy, among others, as well as showcase significant sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator.

TINO SEHGAL
January 29–March 10, 2010
London-born, Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal constructs situations with people that defy the traditional contexts of museum and gallery environments, focusing on the fleeting gestures and social subtleties that define lived experience rather than the material aspects of conventional art making. His singular practice has been informed by his studies in dance and economics, yielding ephemeral works that consist only of the interactions among their participants and are not visually documented. Organized as part of the Guggenheim’s 50thanniversary celebrations, Sehgal’s exhibition comprises a mise-en-scène that will occupy the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda. One facet of the artist’s practice, quasisculptural choreographed movement will transform the ground floor of the rotunda into an arena for spectatorship. On the spiraling ramp, another aspect—direct verbal interaction between museum visitors and trained participants—will predominate. Sehgal’s works expand the concept of what constitutes a contemporary art object, offering the viewer an immediate engagement with the realization of the work presented. This exhibition is organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, assisted by Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, and Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator.

Made possible by the International Director’s Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Additional funding provided by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Leadership Committee is gratefully acknowledged.

CONTEMPLATING THE VOID: INTERVENTIONS IN THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
AN ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT EVENT
February 12–April 28, 2010
This exhibition celebrates the catalytic power of the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed museum’s spiraling rotunda on the occasion of the building’s 50th Anniversary. Since its opening in 1959, the building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. With that history in mind, the Guggenheim invited approximately 200 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space. The show will feature their renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation that will emphasize the rich and diverse range of the proposals. This exhibition is organized by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design.

HAUNTED: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE
March 26–September 6, 2010
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines the myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Drawn primarily from the Guggenheim Museum collection, Haunted will feature recent acquisitions, many of which will be exhibited by the museum for the first time. Included in the show will be work by such artists as Marina Abramović, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol. A significant part of the exhibition will be dedicated to work created since 2001 by younger artists. This exhibition is curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator.

Made possible by the International Director’s Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Additional support provided by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.

The Leadership Committee is gratefully acknowledged.

THE DEUTSCHE BANK SERIES AT THE GUGGENHEIM
JULIE MEHRETU: GREY AREA
May–October 2010
In this exhibition, acclaimed American artist Julie Mehretu will premiere in New York Grey Area, a new suite of paintings that she produced for the 15th project of Deutsche Guggenheim’s commission program, which is on view in Berlin through January 6, 2010. Mehretu is celebrated for her large-scale paintings and drawings that layer abstract forms with familiar architectural imagery. Inspired by a multitude of sources, including historical photographs, urban-planning grids, modern art, and graffiti, these semiabstract works explore the intersections of power, history, dystopia, and the built environment along with their impact on the formation of personal and communal identities. This exhibition is organized by Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art and Manager of Curatorial Affairs.

Made possible by Deutsche Bank.

The Leadership Committee is gratefully acknowledged.

CHAOS AND CLASSICISM: ART IN FRANCE, ITALY, AND GERMANY, 1918–1936
October 1, 2010–January 9, 2011
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 is the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. It will examine the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi; and the functionalist utopianism at the Bauhaus as well as, chillingly, the pseudobiological classicism, or Aryanism, of nascent Nazi society. This presentation of the vast transformation in French, Italian, and German contemporary culture will encompass painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion, and the decorative arts. This exhibition is curated by Kenneth E. Silver, guest curator and Professor of Modern Art, New York University, with Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early-20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Karole Vail, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Helen Hsu, Curatorial Assistant, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010
Summer 2011
Established in 1996, the biennial Hugo Boss Prize, administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, is awarded to an artist whose work represents a significant development in contemporary art. Selected by an international jury of curators, the Hugo Boss Prize 2010 short list includes Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The winner of the eighth prize will be announced in fall 2010, and an exhibition of the artist’s work will be presented at the Guggenheim in summer 2011. Previous recipients of the prize are Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potrč (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), and Emily Jacir (2008). This exhibition is curated by Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator.

Ongoing Exhibitions

THE THANNHAUSER COLLECTION
The newly restored Thannhauser Gallery reopened to the public in 2008 with a selection of canvases, works on paper, and sculpture bequeathed to the museum by the important art dealer and collector Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976). Representing the earliest works in the museum’s collection, the Thannhauser holdings include significant works by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, and Vincent van Gogh. Thannhauser’s commitment to supporting the early careers of such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc, and to educating the public about modern art, paralleled the vision of the Guggenheim Foundation’s originator, Solomon R. Guggenheim. Among the works Thannhauser gave are such incomparable masterpieces as Van Gogh’s Mountains at Saint-Rémy (Montagnes à Saint-Rémy, July 1889), Manet’s Before the Mirror (Devant la glace, 1876), and close to 30 paintings and drawings by Picasso, including his seminal works Le Moulin de la Galette (autumn 1900) and Woman Ironing (La Repasseuse, spring 1904). This reinstallation of more than 30 works of the Thannhauser Collection offers visitors the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with some of the iconic images that comprise this celebrated collection.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Admission: Adults $18, students/seniors (65+) $15, members and children under 12 free. Admission includes audio guide tour.

Museum Hours: Sun–Wed 10 am–5:45 pm, Fri 10 am–5:45 pm, Sat 10 am–7:45 pm, closed Thurs. On Saturdays beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish. For general information call 212 423 3500 or visit guggenheim.org.

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From Berlin to New York

Self Portrait of Karl Nierendorf

From Berlin to New York:

Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim, an exhibition of approximately 70 works, including painting, works on paper, and sculpture, as well as historical exhibition brochures and announcements from the collection of the German-born art dealer Karl Nierendorf (1889–1947), will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from January 26 through May 4, 2008.

This exhibition of selections from the Guggenheim Foundation Collection features works by Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb, George Grosz, Vasily Kandinsky, Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, and Oskar Kokoschka, among others.

Formerly a banker, Karl Nierendorf began his career in the art trade in 1920 in Cologne, specializing in works on paper by German and Austrian Expressionist artists. In 1936 Nierendorf immigrated to the U.S.A. and established the Nierendorf Gallery in New York, where he encountered Hilla Rebay (1890–1967) and the newly established Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Nierendorf promoted artists represented in the Guggenheim collection, including Lyonel Feininger, Perle Fine, and Franz Marc, which led the Foundation to purchase a number of important works for its collection from Nierendorf Gallery. Following his death in 1947, the Guggenheim Foundation purchased the entire estate of Karl Nierendorf, thereby gaining not only works acquired for the Guggenheim during his travels abroad from 1946 to 1947, but also his gallery inventory and likely objects from the dealer’s personal collection.

This major acquisition enriched the breadth of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection with a concentration of Expressionist works, such as Kokoschka’s Knight Errant (1915); Surrealist paintings; and significant holdings of Klee. Comprised in this major purchase are also early paintings by Adolph Gottlieb, which are among the first compositions by a member of the nascent school of Abstract Expressionism to enter the Guggenheim’s collection.

This permanent collection installation features both acquisitions from Karl Nierendorf’s galleries in Berlin and New York and from the dealer’s estate. In addition to historical exhibition brochures and gallery announcements, the exhibition will feature an interactive touch screen where the visitor can view archival catalogues, page by page.

Exhibition ToursCuratorial tours of the exhibition, free with admission, will be given on February 1, 8 and 15, 2008, at 2:00 PM.

The Art Institute of New York City’s Open House

Do you have an eye for interior design, a talent for the media arts, a taste for the culinary arts or are you fashion savvy? An Art Institutes education may be just what you are looking for.

An Open House to explore a creative arts education is being held at The Art Institute of New York City on February 2, 2008 at 75 Varick Street and 11 Beach Street.

Attendees will be invited to learn more about the school’s programs, discuss educational goals, tour the facilities, learn about tuition scholarship opportunities and gain a first-hand look at how an Art Institutes creative education can be the preparation for an exciting career.

“The Art Institute of New York City is inviting those interested in a creative arts education to learn more about our school and what it has to offer,” said Tim Howard, President of The Art Institute of New York City.

To learn more about The Art Institute of New York City’s Open House event, visit www.artinstitutes.edu/Admissions/OpenHouse.aspx?prid=OH_0208_001_pr, or contact Mary Ann Grillo, Sr. Director of Admissions, 212.625.6080. Midge Elias Director of Public Relations The Art Institute of New York City 75 Varick Street 16th Floor New York, NY 10013 212.625.6027 melias@aii.edu

Art in New York City

Rememberance of the Eygptian Exhibit of Long - a - Go in NYC .....remember?

2001
By Liz LarnerDoris Freedman Plaza, Central Park at East 60th Street Manhattan


Liz Larner is best known for her engaging investigations into the physicality of objects in space. 2001 is Larner’s virtuoso reinterpretation of the two quintessential geometric forms of modernist sculpture – the sphere and the cube. Twelve feet high, deep and wide, and painted in green and purple iridescent urethane, 2001 is anenigmatic shape-shifter; its contour and color change with the viewer’s angle and the overall light conditions so that it seems to be both at rest and undergoing metamorphosis.

Larner lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BFA from California Institute of Arts (1985). Her work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial (2006), Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2005); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2001); Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2006).