| New York is more than America's largest city: it has | | | | ongoing basis. Recent exhibitions have included |
| been and continues to be the inspiration behind much | | | | various showings of Russian and socialist art, Robert |
| of the country's most enduring pieces of art and | | | | Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition, David Smith: |
| literature. From Langston Hughes to Jonathan Safran | | | | A Centennial and the images of Baghdad-born artist |
| Foer, and Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko, New York | | | | Zaha Hadid. Its future planned showcases include the |
| City has been the thriving hub of many an American | | | | work of Lucio Fontana, and Spanish Painting from El |
| cultural movement since the beginning of the 1900s. | | | | Greco to Picasso. This eclectic range of artists and |
| This fact is made even more evident by the city's | | | | artistic works demonstrates the ongoing commitment |
| wide array of museums and art galleries, the most | | | | of the Guggenheim Museum to its original goal, to |
| prominent of which are The Museum of Modern Art | | | | showcase the work of new modernism, whilst still |
| (MOMA), The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art | | | | embracing new forms of modern art in the |
| and the Guggenheim Museum, among a host of | | | | twenty-first century. Although "high" modern and |
| others.Both artistically and architecturally, New York's | | | | postmodern art have been the main artistic lines |
| Guggenheim Museum (technically called The Solomon | | | | pursued by the Guggenheim, it has also been host to |
| R. Guggenheim Museum) is one of the city's most | | | | a variety of commercial art, including seasons |
| interesting landmarks and artistic forums. The eminent | | | | exhibiting motorcycles and Giorgio Armani suits.The |
| novelist E.B. White once said, "New York is to the | | | | Guggenheim Museum in New York is part of the |
| nation what the white spire is to the village," and it | | | | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, a non-profit |
| might be possible to say that, artistically speaking, | | | | organisation founded in 1937 by eminent philanthropist |
| the white spire of New York is the Guggenheim. | | | | Solomon R. Guggenheim and artist Hilla von Rebay. |
| Situated at the corners of 89th Street and 5th | | | | Since the establishment of the first Guggenheim in |
| Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side, its architect | | | | New York, the foundation has gone on to open |
| Frank Lloyd Wright set out to make the building look | | | | further museums in Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and Las |
| like what has been described as "a white ribbon | | | | Vegas, and is in the process of establishing another |
| curled into a cylindrical stack," and was intent on his | | | | Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi. For the artistic holiday |
| avant-garde design making the Metropolitan Museum | | | | maker, a perfect vacation idea might be a trip around |
| of Art look like "a Protestant barn". Though widely | | | | the world to all the Guggenheim museums. This idea |
| condemned at the time, the building is now seen as | | | | is not even as expensive as it might seem: for |
| one of New York's finest - as is often the case with | | | | example, there are Hilton Hotels in all of these cities, |
| the best pieces of architecture.Originally set up in | | | | and using the Hilton Honors rewards system, |
| 1937 as "The Museum of Non-Objective Painting", the | | | | travelling art fans can use their accumulated points to |
| Guggenheim was principally established to exhibit | | | | reclaim hotel rewards as well as air miles with a |
| work by early modernists, like Piet Mondrian and | | | | variety of different airlines, to make their worldwide |
| Wassily Kandinsky. In particular, it continues to exhibit | | | | Guggenheim tour a vacation with a difference. |
| the work of Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock on an | | | | |