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NEWS ABOUT: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum stories: 9 news summaries
APPRECIATION

 Modernist Architect 
 Gwathmey Dies at 71 


Aug 5, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Gwathmey, who died of esophageal cancer at 71 this week, began his architectural career as a steely, pared-down Modernist and never wavered from his style over decades of work, writes the New York Times. His larger buildings, such as an extension to Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Guggenheim Museum, were... More »

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architecture • New York • obituary • modernism • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • architect • Charles Gwathmey

Opera Sounds Good, But How Does It Smell?

New work opening at Guggenheim blasts
23 scents at audience

May 20, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new opera premiering at the Guggenheim Museum in New York later this month will be a feast for the ears, the eyes—and the nose. Green Aria, a 30-minute "scent opera" years in the making, pairs music with 23 distinct odors blasted at the audience via individual... More »

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classical music • opera • scent • sense of smell • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • perfume • fragrance

EXHIBITION REVIEW

 Guggenheim Plays It 
 Safe on Wright Show 

The models are great, but Wright show disappoints

May 15, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifty years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, historians and critics are still fighting over the legacy of an architect called in turns a genius and a megalomaniac. Now, a new exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York—one of Wright's last buildings—offers an anniversary retrospective of... More »

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art museum • architecture • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Frank Lloyd Wright • Guggenheim • exhibition

 Guggenheim 
 Taps Curator 
 as New Chief 

Pittsburgh's Armstrong heralds new direction for museum

Sep 24, 08 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Foundation has chosen Richard Armstrong, the head of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, as the museum's new director. He succeeds Thomas Krens, who established the Guggenheim as a global brand with branches in Europe and more planned in Asia and the Middle East. But Krens' commercialism and expansionist... More »

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art museum • art • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Thomas Krens • Guggenheim • Richard Armstrong

Wanted: Museum Director
to Marry Art, Commerce

Unique job description complicates search for Guggenheim, Met, others

Jul 15, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - American museums are facing a shift in leadership, Newsweek reports, with 20 of the most prominent fine-art institutions—including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—in search of directors. A "generational shift" has left institutions seeking specific qualifications: "Ideally... More »

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art museum • art • museum • MBA • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • management • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Philadelphia Museum of Art

ANALYSIS

Guggenheim Vegas Failure
a Rare Stumble

Starchitect Koolhaas bears some blame for museum's woes: critic

May 13, 08 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that the shutdown of the Guggenheim Museum's Las Vegas satellites is complete, many in the art world are faulting museum leaders in New York for not understanding the realities of the Strip. But for one LA Times critic, it's not just the Guggenheim that misread Vegas. Rem Koolhaas,... More »

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architecture • art • Las Vegas • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Las Vegas Strip • Venetian • Rem Koolhaas

 Guggenheim Bilbao 
 Honcho Embezzled $800K 

Museum sues CFO after years of fraud

Apr 18, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's outpost in Bilbao is suing its director of finance after he admitted embezzling $800,000 from the institution's coffers. In a long mea culpa letter to the museum's director, Robert Cearsolo Barrenetxea confessed that he had used bank transfers and fraudulent checks to line his own pockets... More »

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art museum • Spain • art • Basque • Guggenheim Bilbao • Bilbao • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim's Vegas Gallery Craps Out

Art doesn't play on the Strip; museum outpost folds after 7 years

Apr 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's second venue on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its doors after 7 years. The nonprofit satellite gallery, which presented works from both the New York museum and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, was housed in the decidedly for-profit Venetian Hotel. A larger space folded only 18... More »

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art museum • art • Las Vegas • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Thomas Krens • Las Vegas Strip

Guggenheim Won't Be Turning Yellow

Wright wanted it, but landmarks commission says it stays off-white

Nov 21, 07 10:17 AM CST
(Newser) - When the construction wrappings come off, the Guggenheim Museum will be off-white again, not yellow, after an unusual preservation debate was settled by New York City's landmarks commission. Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Upper East Side museum was painted a buff yellow for its first four years—the architect famously hated... More »

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Frank Lloyd Wright • Thomas Krens

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