On Thursday the 7th of April I was in Venice, at the news conference of the new Peggy Guggenheim’s exhibition “Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity”. The conference was held on the panoramic terrace, so I had the opportunity to see all of Venice and its lagoon from this fantastic place which is open only on […]
Leonora CarringtonLa cucina aromatica di nonna Moorhead – Grandmother Moorhead‘s Aromatic Kitchen – 1975Center for Visual Performing Arts, Ardmore, OklahomaFrom April 9 through September 26, 2022 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, curated by Gražina Subelytė, Associate Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection. This is the first large-scale international loan […]
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (May 19 – September 3, 2018) is the second venue of the exhibition, after the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. From November 3, 2017 through February 18, 2018, the Guggenheim Museum presents Josef Albers in Mexico, an exhibition illuminating the relationship between the forms and design of pre-Columbian monuments and the art of […]
From January 27 through May 1, 2018, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition Marino Marini. Visual Passions, curated by Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi with the collaboration of Chiara Fabi. This is the first retrospective dedicated to Marino Marini. The show intends to contextualize Marini’s work in a broader art historical context. More than […]
Mark Tobey: Threading Light, May 6 – September 10, 2017, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Mark Tobey: Threading Light is the first comprehensive retrospective of the American artist’s work in twenty years. The exhibition traces the evolution of the artist’s groundbreaking style and his significant yet under-recognized contributions to abstraction and mid-century American modernism. With 70 […]
From 25 February to 26 June 2017, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition Rita Kernn-Larsen. Surrealist Paintings, curated by Gražina Subelytė, Curatorial Assistant of the Collection. The exhibition highlights how Kernn-Larsen (Hillerød, 1904–Copenhagen, 1998) was one of several women who played a noteworthy part in the Surrealist movement, both in Denmark and internationally. She […]
From 12 November 2016 to 13 March 2017 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass. Tancredi. A Retrospective, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Associate Curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. With over ninety works, this much-awaited retrospective marks the return to Venice of Tancredi […]
From 12 November 2016 to 13 March 2017 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition My Weapon against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass. TANCREDI. A Retrospective This is a long-awaited return to Venice and to Peggy Guggenheim’s museum of Tancredi Parmeggiani (1926-1964), among the most original and passionate Italian painters of third […]
Postwar Era. A Recent History. Homages to Jack Tworkov and Claire Falkenstein offers a fresh, analytical look at postwar American and European art through 1979, the year of Peggy Guggenheim death. More than ninety paintings and sculptures, works both from Peggy Guggenheim’s collection and from donations to the Foundation’s Venice museum, some rarely exhibited, are […]
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents a program of three ground breaking exhibitions that pay tribute to the brothers Jackson and Charles Pollock. As the world turns its attention to the 2015 Milan Expo—an important event not just for Milan but for all Italy—the Peggy Guggenheim Collection thanks the Intrapresæ Collezione Guggenheim for their support in […]
September 20, 2014–January 19, 2015 @PeggyGuggenheim Venice One can’t rise off the ground by running or jumping: one needs wings Piero Manzoni The exhibition AZIMUT/H. Continuity and Newness is a tribute to the post World War II neo-avantgarde in Italy, currently of widespread interest to critics, curators and the general public, and in particular to […]
For your eyes only A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism Curated by Andreas Beyer May 24–August 31, 2014 This exhibition curated by Andreas Beyer presents for the first time to the public a rich selection of works from the private Collection of Richard and Ulla Dreyfus-Best, in Basel. A selection of approximately one hundred […]