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92  NE W Y ORK CIT Y & THE MID-A TLANTIC REGION

@ The Solomon R. Over the years, Solomon
Guggenheim Guggenheim’s core collection
Museum of Abstract Expressionist art has
been added to by donations
1071 5th Ave at 89th St. Tel (212) 423- of several important collections,
3500. q 4, 5, 6 to 86th St. @ M1, M2, from Willem de Kooning to
M3, M4. Open 10am–5:45pm Sun–Wed Jackson Pollock and Robert
& Fri, 10am–7:45pm Sat. Closed Thu, Motherwell. The museum now
Jan 1, Dec 25. & “Pay What You Wish” owns a large body of work by
5:45–7:45pm Sat. 7 8 Concerts, famous artists such as
lectures, performing art series. - = Kandinsky, and major holdings
∑ guggenheim.org of Brancusi, Calder, Klee, Chagall,
Miró, Léger, Mondrian, Picasso,
One of the world’s finest Oldenburg, and Rauschenberg.
collections of modern and Not all of the permanent
contemporary art is housed in collection is on display at any
a building that is considered one time. Only a small portion
one of the great architectural is on view because the main
achievements of the 20th gallery, the Great Rotunda, Cézanne’s Man with Arms Crossed
century. The only New York usually features special (1895–1900), Guggenheim Museum
building to be designed by the exhibitions. The Small Rotunda
celebrated American architect shows some of the museum’s the museum are the Justin
Frank Lloyd Wright (see p394), famous Impressionist and Thannhauser collection,
it was completed after his Post- Impressionist holdings. with over 30 works by
death in 1959. Its shell-like The Tower galleries feature Picasso, more than 100
façade is a New York landmark, exhibitions of work from the photographs and unique
while the interior is dominated permanent collection and objects from the Robert
by a spiral ramp that curves contemporary pieces. A fifth- Mapplethorpe Foundation,
down and inward from the floor sculpture terrace overlooks and Minimalist, Post- Minimalist,
dome, passing works by major the scenic Central Park. Three and Conceptual art from
19th- and 20th- century artists. important acquisitions by Giuseppe Panza’ s collection.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tower
Great Rotunda

Small Rotunda

Sculpture terrace
Information center Main entrance
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp122–4 and pp125–7

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Date 12th July 2013
Size 125mm x 217mm