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The Guggenheim Museum - Solomon R. Guggenheim's Great Gift to New York City

New York is more than America's largest city:ongoing basis. Recent exhibitions have
it has been and continues to be theincluded various showings of Russian and
inspiration behind much of the country's mostsocialist art, Robert Mapplethorpe and the
enduring pieces of art and literature. FromClassical Tradition, David Smith: A
Langston Hughes to Jonathan Safran Foer, andCentennial and the images of Baghdad-born
Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko, New York Cityartist Zaha Hadid. Its future planned
has been the thriving hub of many an Americanshowcases include the work of Lucio Fontana,
cultural movement since the beginning of theand Spanish Painting from El Greco to
1900s. This fact is made even more evident byPicasso. This eclectic range of artists and
the city's wide array of museums and artartistic works demonstrates the ongoing
galleries, the most prominent of which arecommitment of the Guggenheim Museum to its
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Theoriginal goal, to showcase the work of new
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and themodernism, whilst still embracing new forms
Guggenheim Museum, among a host ofof modern art in the twenty-first century.
others.Both artistically and architecturally,Although "high" modern and postmodern art
New York's Guggenheim Museum (technicallyhave been the main artistic lines pursued by
called The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) isthe Guggenheim, it has also been host to a
one of the city's most interesting landmarksvariety of commercial art, including seasons
and artistic forums. The eminent novelistexhibiting motorcycles and Giorgio Armani
E.B. White once said, "New York is to thesuits.The Guggenheim Museum in New York is
nation what the white spire is to thepart of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,
village," and it might be possible to saya non-profit organisation founded in 1937 by
that, artistically speaking, the white spireeminent philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim
of New York is the Guggenheim. Situated atand artist Hilla von Rebay. Since the
the corners of 89th Street and 5th Avenue inestablishment of the first Guggenheim in New
Manhattan's Upper East Side, its architectYork, the foundation has gone on to open
Frank Lloyd Wright set out to make thefurther museums in Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and
building look like what has been described asLas Vegas, and is in the process of
"a white ribbon curled into a cylindricalestablishing another Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.
stack," and was intent on his avant-gardeFor the artistic holiday maker, a perfect
design making the Metropolitan Museum of Artvacation idea might be a trip around the
look like "a Protestant barn". Though widelyworld to all the Guggenheim museums. This
condemned at the time, the building is nowidea is not even as expensive as it might
seen as one of New York's finest - as isseem: for example, there are Hilton Hotels in
often the case with the best pieces ofall of these cities, and using the Hilton
architecture.Originally set up in 1937 asHonors rewards system, travelling art fans
"The Museum of Non-Objective Painting", thecan use their accumulated points to reclaim
Guggenheim was principally established tohotel rewards as well as air miles with a
exhibit work by early modernists, like Pietvariety of different airlines, to make their
Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. Inworldwide Guggenheim tour a vacation with a
particular, it continues to exhibit the workdifference.
of Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock on an



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