Artist Tania Bruguera and the Tate Neighbours, a group of South London residents, speak out about the importance of art and civic responsibility. Bruguera works with local communities, using art as a tool to inspire social action and create institutional change. Find out more about Tania Bruguera and the Tate Neighbours: https://goo.gl/R5vhYj Subscribe for weekly […]

The first major solo exhibition in the United States of the work of artist Hilma af Klint has opened to much acclaim. A contemporary of Vasily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Kazimir Malevich, af Klint began to explore abstraction years before her male counterparts but kept her groundbreaking art largely private. Only recently have her paintings […]

Listen to and watch an in-depth audio description of John Singer Sargent’s Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. Hear a detailed description of the artwork, descriptions of the colours and forms in the artwork, and how the artist made the work. Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl source

We asked leading artists, actors, filmmakers, architects and choreographers why art should be on the curriculum. Watch their responses. Should art be on the curriculum? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below. Featuring: David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Michael Craig-Martin, Catherine Opie, Cate Blanchett, Anne-Marie Imafidon, Cornelia Parker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Amanda Levete, Tania Bruguera, […]

„Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future“ is the first major solo exhibition in the United States devoted to Hilma af Klint, a long-underrecognized innovator of abstract art. More than 165 of af Klint’s bold works will fill the Guggenheim’s rotunda, with a focus on the artist’s breakthrough years, 1906–20. It was during this period […]

Born in Stockholm in 1862, Hilma af Klint began her artistic career as an academy-educated painter of naturalistic landscapes and portraits. Influenced by the spiritual movements and scientific discoveries of her era, however, af Klint soon strove to express abstract concepts beyond what the eye can see. She began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, […]

On June 21, 2018, the Guggenheim’s rotunda became an arena for the culminating performance of Shaun Leonardo’s „Primitive Games“ (2018). Commissioned as part of Guggenheim Social Practice, the project asked “What might happen when four seemingly divided groups are invited to debate one another without using words?” The June event followed artist-led, movement-based workshops with […]

The creation of each Guggenheim exhibition involves many people, and all of them bring different kinds of technical expertise to the installation process. For two decades, Derek DeLuco, Senior Technician and Mount Maker at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, has made mounts for the art on view at the museum—an undertaking that […]

Erik Satie’s „Vexations“ (ca. 1893) is a short piano piece to be repeated 840 times. Satie may not have meant for it to be played, but John Cage—attracted to its serial, durational nature—staged it in New York with pianists in a relay in 1963. The performance lasted almost 19 hours. In 2017, 20 musicians realized […]

Set in the largest logistics warehouse in Shanghai, Cao Fei’s film „Asia One“ (2018)—part of a larger installation of the same name—examines the automated industry’s physical and psychological impact on society. In this video, she notes a central question of her work: “How can humanity go on finding its place after humans have been replaced […]

We might think of Performance Art as something completely different to what’s usually shown in museums. We’re used to museums (like us) collecting and showing objects, but performance is live and ephemeral. It happens and then it’s gone. But more and more, we’re showing this sort of thing. In this series, we invited art historian […]