Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937, is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. Originally called "The Museum of Non-Objective Painting," the Guggenheim was founded to showcase avant-garde art by early modernists.

Information

Location	1071 5th Avenue (at 89th St), New York, NY
Directions	4, 5, 6 Trains to 86th Street; walk west on 86th St, turn right at 5th Ave, walk north to 88th St
Hours	Sunday - Wednesday, Friday 10 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 7:45 p.m. Closed Thursday
Cost	$15 with college ID Fridays 5:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. - Pay What You Wish
Website	http://www.guggenheim.org
Additional Info	First Friday of every month: Enjoy a drink with friends, explore the galleries, and listen to some of the best DJs in town in the spectacular Lloyd Wright–designed building. Admission $25, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Current Exhibitions

Kandinsky 1911–1913 (June 25–April 25, 2013)
Perhaps more than any other 20th-century painter, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) has been closely linked to the history of the Guggenheim Museum. Hilla Rebay—artist, art advisor, and the museum’s first director—promoted nonobjective painting above all other forms of abstraction. She was particularly inspired by the work and writing of Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstraction, who believed that the task of the painter was to convey his own inner world, rather than imitate the natural world.

Picasso Black and White (October 5, 2012–January 23, 2013)
This comprehensive exhibition focuses in depth on Pablo Picasso’s career-long exploration of a black-and-white palette. Surveying his oeuvre from 1904 to 1971, Picasso Black and White comprises some 110 works, including painting as well as sculpture and several works on paper.

Now's the Time: Recent Acquisitions (November 4, 2012–January 2, 2013)
This exhibition brings together highlights from the Guggenheim's growing collection of contemporary art. On view at the museum for the first time, these works reflect recent developments in painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, representing works acquired since 2008 through the museum’s collection committees and the generosity of individual patrons.

Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms (November 9, 2012–January 13, 2013)
The final project in Deutsche Guggenheim’s commissioning program, this exhibition is a two-part sculptural and photographic installation comprising thousands of items of detritus Gabriel Orozco has gathered at two sites—a playing field near the artist’s home in New York and a protected coastal biosphere in Baja California, Mexico.

A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian House and Pavilion (July 27, 2012–February 13, 2013)
On October 22, 1953, Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright opened in New York on the site where the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum would eventually be built. Two Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings were constructed specifically to house the exhibition: a temporary pavilion made of glass, fiberboard, and pipe columns; and a 1,700-square-foot, fully furnished, two-bedroom, model Usonian house representing Wright’s organic solution for modest, middle-class dwellings.