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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
NYC - Guggenheim Museum.jpg
View from Fifth Avenue
Established 1937 (1937)
Location 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates 40°46′59″N 73°57′32″W / 40.782975°N 73.958992°W / 40.782975; -73.958992Coordinates: 40°46′59″N 73°57′32″W / 40.782975°N 73.958992°W / 40.782975; -73.958992
Type Art museum
Visitors 1,199,123 (2013)[1]
Ranked 51st globally (2013)[1]
Director Richard Armstrong
Public transit access Subway: "4" train "5" train "6" train "6" express train trains at 86th Street
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M86 SBS
Website www.guggenheim.org/new-york
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located in Manhattan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located in New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Built 1959
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural style Modern
NRHP reference # 05000443[2]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, the artist Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name after the death of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, in 1952.

In 1959, the museum moved from rented space to its current building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical building, wider at the top than the bottom, was conceived as a "temple of the spirit", its unique ramp gallery extends up from ground level in a long, continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building to end just under the ceiling skylight. The building underwent extensive expansion and renovations in 1992 (when an adjoining tower was built) and from 2005 to 2008.

The museum's collection has grown organically, over eight decades, and is founded upon several important private collections, beginning with Solomon R. Guggenheim's original collection, the collection is shared with the museum's sister museums in Bilbao, Spain, and elsewhere. In 2013, nearly 1.2 million people visited the museum, and it hosted the most popular exhibition in New York City.[1]

History[edit]

Early years and Hilla Rebay[edit]

Solomon R. Guggenheim, a member of a wealthy mining family, had been collecting works of the old masters since the 1890s. In 1926, he met artist Hilla von Rebay,[3] who introduced him to European avant-garde art, in particular abstract art that she felt had a spiritual and utopian aspect (non-objective art).[3] Guggenheim completely changed his collecting strategy, turning to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, among others, he began to display his collection to the public at his apartment in the Plaza Hotel in New York City.[3][4] As the collection grew, he established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, in 1937, to foster the appreciation of modern art.[4]

The Museum of Non-Objective Painting[edit]

Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition pour Jazz, oil on cardboard, 73 × 73 cm

The foundation's first venue for the display of art, the "Museum of Non-Objective Painting", opened in 1939 under the direction of Rebay, in midtown Manhattan.[5] Under Rebay's guidance, Guggenheim sought to include in the collection the most important examples of non-objective art available at the time by early modernists such as Rudolf Bauer, Rebay, Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso.[3][4][6]

By the early 1940s, the foundation had accumulated such a large collection of avant-garde paintings that the need for a permanent museum building had become apparent;[7] in 1943, Rebay and Guggenheim wrote a letter to Frank Lloyd Wright asking him to design a structure to house and display the collection.[8] Wright accepted the opportunity to experiment with his organic style in an urban setting, it took him 15 years, 700 sketches, and six sets of working drawings to create the museum.[9]

In 1948, the collection was greatly expanded through the purchase of art dealer Karl Nierendorf's estate of some 730 objects, notably German expressionist paintings.[6] By that time, the foundation's collection included a broad spectrum of expressionist and surrealist works, including paintings by Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Joan Miró.[6][10] After Guggenheim's death in 1949, members of the Guggenheim family who sat on the foundation's board of directors had personal and philosophical differences with Rebay, and in 1952 she resigned as director of the museum.[11] Nevertheless, she left a portion of her personal collection to the foundation in her will, including works by Kandinsky, Klee, Alexander Calder, Albert Gleizes, Mondrian and Kurt Schwitters.[10] The museum was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952.[11]

Design[edit]

Rebay conceived of the space as a "temple of the spirit" that would facilitate a new way of looking at the modern pieces in the collection, she wrote to Wright that "each of these great masterpieces should be organized into space, and only you ... would test the possibilities to do so. … I want a temple of spirit, a monument!"[12][13] The critic Paul Goldberger later wrote that, before Wright's modernist building, "there were only two common models for museum design: Beaux-arts Palace ... and the International Style Pavilion."[14] Goldberger thought the building a catalyst for change, making it "socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum; in this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim."[14]

The museum's atrium

From 1943 to early 1944, Wright produced four different sketches for the initial design. While one of the plans (scheme C) had a hexagonal shape and level floors for the galleries, all the others had circular schemes and used a ramp continuing around the building, he had experimented with the ramp design on the house he completed for his son in 1952, the David & Gladys Wright House in Arizona.[citation needed] Wright's original concept was called an inverted "ziggurat", because it resembled the steep steps on the ziggurats built in ancient Mesopotamia,[15] his design dispensed with the conventional approach to museum layout, in which visitors are led through a series of interconnected rooms and forced to retrace their steps when exiting.[16] Wright's plan was for the museum guests to ride to the top of the building by elevator, to descend at a leisurely pace along the gentle slope of the continuous ramp, and to view the atrium of the building as the last work of art, the open rotunda afforded viewers the unique possibility of seeing several bays of work on different levels simultaneously and even to interact with guests on other levels.[17]

At the same time, before settling on the site for the museum at the corner of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue, overlooking Central Park, Wright, Rebay and Guggenheim considered numerous locations in Manhattan, as well as in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, overlooking the Hudson River.[18] Guggenheim felt that the site's proximity to Central Park was important; the park afforded relief from the noise, congestion and concrete of the city.[15] Nature also provided the museum with inspiration,[18] the building embodies Wright's attempts "to render the inherent plasticity of organic forms in architecture."[16] The Guggenheim was to be the only museum designed by Wright, the city location required Wright to design the building in a vertical rather than a horizontal form, far different from his earlier, rural works.[15][19]

The spiral design recalled a nautilus shell, with continuous spaces flowing freely one into another.[20] Even as it embraced nature, Wright’s design also expresses his take on modernist architecture's rigid geometry.[20] Wright ascribed a symbolic meaning to the building's shapes, he explained, "these geometric forms suggest certain human ideas, moods, sentiments – as for instance: the circle, infinity; the triangle, structural unity; the spiral, organic progress; the square, integrity."[21] Forms echo one another throughout: oval-shaped columns, for example, reiterate the geometry of the fountain. Circularity is the leitmotif, from the rotunda to the inlaid design of the terrazzo floors.[18]

The building's surface was made out of concrete to reduce the cost, inferior to the stone finish that Wright had wanted.[22] Wright proposed a red-colored exterior, which was never realized,[23] the small rotunda (or "Monitor building", as Wright called it) next to the large rotunda was intended to house apartments for Rebay and Guggenheim but instead became offices and storage space.[24] In 1965, the second floor of the Monitor building was renovated to display the museum's growing permanent collection, and with the restoration of the museum in 1990–92, it was turned over entirely to exhibition space and christened the Thannhauser Building, in honor of one of the most important bequests to the museum.[25] Wright’s original plan for an adjoining tower, artists’ studios and apartments went unrealized, largely for financial reasons, until the renovation and expansion.[17][26] Also in the original construction, the main gallery skylight had been covered, which compromised Wright’s carefully articulated lighting effects, this changed in 1992 when the skylight was restored to its original design.[22]

Museum under construction in photo taken on Nov. 12, 1957

Sweeney years and completion of construction[edit]

In 1953, the foundation's collecting criteria expanded under its new director, James Johnson Sweeney. Sweeney rejected Rebay's dismissal of "objective" painting and sculpture, and he soon acquired Constantin Brâncuși's Adam and Eve (1921), followed by works of other modernist sculptors, including Joseph Csaky, Jean Arp, Calder, Alberto Giacometti and David Smith.[6] Sweeney reached beyond the 20th century to acquire Paul Cézanne's Man with Crossed Arms (c. 1899).[6] The same year, the foundation also received a gift of 28 important works from the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier, a founder of America's first collection to be called a modern art museum, the Société Anonyme. Dreier had been a colleague of Rebay's, the works included Little French Girl (1914–18) by Brâncuși, an untitled still life (1916) by Juan Gris, a bronze sculpture (1919) by Alexander Archipenko and three collages (1919–21) by German Hanoverian Dadaist Schwitters. It also included works by Calder, Marcel Duchamp, El Lissitzky and Mondrian,[10] among others, Sweeney also acquired the works of Alberto Giacometti, David Hayes, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.[27]

Sweeney oversaw the last half dozen years of the construction of the museum building, during which time he had an antagonistic relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright, especially regarding the building's lighting issues,[28][29] the distinctive cylindrical building turned out to be Wright's last major work, as the architect died six months before its opening.[30] From the street, the building looks like a white ribbon curled into a cylindrical stack, wider at the top than the bottom, displaying nearly all curved surfaces, its appearance is in sharp contrast to the typically rectangular Manhattan buildings that surround it, a fact relished by Wright, who claimed that his museum would make the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art "look like a Protestant barn."[30] Internally, the viewing gallery forms a helical spiral ramp climbing gently from ground level to the skylight at the top.[30]

Criticisms and opening of the building[edit]

An interior view of the museum on a busy day

Even before it opened, the design polarized architecture critics,[30][31] some believed that the building would overshadow the museum's artworks.[7][32][33] "On the contrary", wrote the architect, the design makes "the building and the painting an uninterrupted, beautiful symphony such as never existed in the World of Art before."[32] Other critics, and many artists, felt that it is awkward to properly hang paintings in the shallow, windowless, concave exhibition niches that surround the central spiral.[30] Prior to the opening of the museum twenty-one artists signed a letter protesting the display of their work in such a space.[30] Historian Lewis Mumford summed up the opprobrium:

"Wright has allotted the paintings and sculptures on view only as much space as would not infringe upon his abstract composition. ... [He] created a shell whose form has no relation to its function and offered no possibility of future departure from his rigid preconceptions. [The promenade] has, for a museum, a low ceiling – nine feet eight inches [295 cm] [limiting painting size. The wall] slanted outward, following the outward slant of the exterior wall, and paintings were not supposed to be hung vertically or shown in their true plane but were to be tilted back against it. ... Nor [can a visitor] escape the light shining in his eyes from the narrow slots in the wall."[34]

On October 21, 1959, ten years after the death of Solomon Guggenheim and six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Museum first opened its doors to large crowds,[35][36] the building became widely praised[37][38][39] and inspired many other architects.[15]

The skylight in the center of the museum

Messer years[edit]

Thomas M. Messer succeeded Sweeney as director of the museum (but not the foundation) in 1961 and stayed for 27 years, the longest tenure of any of the city's major arts institutions' directors.[40] When Messer took over, the museum's ability to present art at all was still in doubt due to the challenges presented by continuous spiral ramp gallery that is both tilted and has non-vertical curved walls,[41] it is difficult to properly hang paintings in the shallow, windowless exhibition niches that surround the central spiral: canvasses must be mounted raised from the wall's surface. Paintings hung slanted back would appear "as on the artist's easel". There is limited space within the niches for sculpture.[30]

Almost immediately, in 1962, Messer took a risk putting on a large exhibition that combined the Guggenheim's paintings with sculptures on loan from the Hirshhorn collection.[41] Three-dimensional sculpture, in particular, raised "the problem of installing such a show in a museum bearing so close a resemblance to the circular geography of hell", where any vertical object appears tilted in a "drunken lurch" because the slope of the floor and the curvature of the walls could combine to produce vexing optical illusions,[42] it turned out that the combination could work well in the Guggenheim's space, but, Messer recalled that at the time, "I was scared. I half felt that this would be my last exhibition."[41] Messer had the foresight to prepare by staging a smaller sculpture exhibition the previous year, in which he discovered how to compensate for the space's weird geometry by constructing special plinths at a particular angle, so the pieces were not at a true vertical yet appeared to be so;[42] in the earlier sculpture show, this trick proved impossible for one piece, an Alexander Calder mobile whose wire inevitably hung at a true plumb vertical, "suggesting hallucination" in the disorienting context of the tilted floor.[42]

The next year, Messer acquired a private collection from art dealer Justin K. Thannhauser for the museum's permanent collection,[43] these 73 works include Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and French modern masterpieces, including important works by Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh and 32 works by Pablo Picasso.[10][44] "Works and Process" is a series of performances at the Guggenheim begun in 1984.[45] The first season consisted of Philip Glass with Christopher Keene on Akhnaten and Steve Reich and Michael Tilson Thomas on The Desert Music.

Krens and expansion[edit]

Thomas Krens, director of the foundation from 1988 to 2008, led a rapid expansion of the museum's collections.[46] In 1991, he broadened its holdings by acquiring the Panza Collection. Assembled by Count Giuseppe di Biumo and his wife, Giovanna, the Panza Collection includes examples of Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, and Minimalist paintings by Robert Mangold, Brice Marden and Robert Ryman, as well as an array of Post-Minimal, Conceptual, and perceptual art by Robert Morris, Richard Serra, James Turrell, Lawrence Weiner and others, notably American examples of the 1960s and 1970s.[10][47] In 1992, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation gifted 200 of his best photographs to the foundation, the works spanned his entire output, from his early collages, Polaroids, portraits of celebrities, self-portraits, male and female nudes, flowers and statues. It also featured mixed-media constructions and included his well-known 1998 Self-Portrait, the acquisition initiated the foundation's photography exhibition program.[10]

Also in 1992, the New York museum building's exhibition and other space was expanded by the addition of an adjoining rectangular tower that stands behind, and taller than, the original spiral, and a renovation of the original building,[26] the new tower was designed by the architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects,[48] who analyzed Wright's original sketches when they designed the 10-story limestone tower, which replaced a much smaller structure. It has four additional exhibition galleries with flat walls that are "more appropriate for the display of art."[17][26] In the original construction of the building, the main gallery skylight had been covered, which compromised Wright’s carefully articulated lighting effects, this changed in 1992 when the skylight was restored to its original design.[22] By that point, the building had become iconic enough that this augmentation of Wright's original design was itself controversial.[citation needed]

Peter B. Lewis Theater

To finance these moves, controversially, the foundation sold works by Kandinsky, Chagall and Modigliani to raise $47 million, drawing considerable criticism for trading masters for "trendy" latecomers. In The New York Times, critic Michael Kimmelman wrote that the sales "stretched the accepted rules of deaccessioning further than many American institutions have been willing to do."[22][49] Krens defended the action as consistent with the museum's principles, including expanding its international collection and building its "postwar collection to the strength of our pre-war holdings"[47] and pointed out that such sales are a regular practice by museums,[49] at the same time, he moved to expand the foundation's international presence by opening museums abroad.[50] Krens was also criticized for his businesslike style and perceived populism and commercialization.[51][52] One writer commented, "Krens has been both praised and vilified for turning what was once a small New York institution into a worldwide brand, creating the first truly multinational arts institution. ... Krens transformed the Guggenheim into one of the best-known brand name in the arts."[53]

Under Krens, the museum mounted some of its most popular exhibitions: "Africa: The Art of a Continent," in 1996; "China: 5,000 Years," in 1998, "Brazil: Body & Soul," in 2001; and "The Aztec Empire," in 2004.[54] It has shown unusual exhibitions on occasion, for example commercial art installations of motorcycles. The New Criterion's Hilton Kramer condemned The Art of the Motorcycle[51][55] A 2009 retrospective of Frank Lloyd Wright showcased the architect on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the building and was the museum's most popular exhibit since it began keeping such attendance records in 1992.[7]

Students sketching at the entrance to the Sackler Center

In 2001, the museum opened the Sackler Center for Arts Education, the 8,200 square feet (760 m2) facility provides classes and lectures about the visual and performing arts and opportunities to interact with the museum's collections and special exhibitions through its labs, exhibition spaces, conference rooms and 266-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater,[56][57] it is located on the lower level of the museum, below the large rotunda and was a gift of the Mortimer D. Sackler family.[58] Also in 2001, the foundation received a gift of the large collection of the Bohen Foundation, which, for two decades, commissioned new works of art with an emphasis on film, video, photography and new media. Artists included in the collection are Pierre Huyghe and Sophie Calle.[3]

Exterior restoration[edit]

Between September 2005 and July 2008, the Guggenheim Museum underwent a significant exterior restoration to repair cracks and[59] modernize systems and exterior details;[60] in the first phase of this project, a team of restoration architects, structural engineers, and architectural conservators worked together to create a comprehensive assessment of the building's condition that determined the structure to be fundamentally sound. This initial condition assessment included:

  • the removal of paint from the original surface, revealing hundreds of cracks caused over the years, primarily by seasonal temperature fluctuations;[59]
  • detailed monitoring of the movement of selected cracks over 17 months;
  • impact-echo technology, in which sound waves are sent into the concrete and the rebound is measured to locate voids within the walls;
  • laser surveys of the exterior and interior surfaces, believed to be the largest laser model ever compiled;
  • core drilling to gather samples of the original concrete and other construction materials; and
  • testing of potential repair materials.[61]
2 cent postage stamp featuring a black and white illustration with bust of Wright in the foreground and the museum in the background.
1966 U.S. postage stamp honoring Wright

Much of the interior of the building was restored during the 1992 renovation and addition by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects, the 2005–2008 restoration primarily addressed the exterior of the original building and the infrastructure. This included the skylights, windows, doors, concrete and gunite facades and exterior sidewalk, as well as the climate-control, the goal was to preserve as much significant historical fabric of the museum as possible, while accomplishing necessary repairs and attaining a suitable environment for the building's continuing use as a museum.[62]

On September 22, 2008, the Guggenheim celebrated the completion of a three-year restoration project. New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg officiated at the celebration that culminated with the premiere of artist Jenny Holzer's tribute For the Guggenheim,[63] a work commissioned in honor of Peter B. Lewis, who was a major benefactor in the Museum restoration project. Other supporters of the $29 million restoration included the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and the city's Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support was provided by the State of New York and MAPEI Corporation,[64] the museum was registered as a National Historic Landmark on October 6, 2008.[65]

Recent years[edit]

Richard Armstrong, 2012

In 2005, Krens won a dispute with billionaire philanthropist Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the foundation's Board of Directors and the largest contributor to the foundation in its history. Lewis resigned from the Board, expressing opposition to Krens' plans for further global expansion of the Guggenheim museums.[66] Also in 2005, Lisa Dennison, a longtime Guggenheim curator, was appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Dennison resigned in July 2007, to work at the auction house Sotheby's.[67] Tensions between Krens and the Board continued, and in February 2008 Krens stepped down as the Director of the foundation, although he remains an advisor for international affairs.[68]

Richard Armstrong, formerly director of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art, became the fifth director of the museum on November 4, 2008. He had been director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for 12 years, where he had also served as chief curator and curator of contemporary art,[69] the Chief curator and deputy director of the museum is Nancy Spector.[70]

In addition to its permanent collections, which continue to grow,[3] the foundation administers loan exhibitions and co-organizes exhibitions with other museums to foster public outreach;[71] in 2013, nearly 1.2 million people visited the museum, and it hosted the most popular exhibition in New York City (James Turell).[1]

Selected works in the collection[edit]

In popular culture[edit]

In The International, a shootout occurs in the museum. A life-size replica of the museum was built for this scene.[72]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Notes

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External links[edit]

External video
Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim, June 8, 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Smarthistory at Khan Academy
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