For „Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection,“ six contemporary artists explore the Guggenheim collection to create the museum’s first artist-curated exhibition. Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems present nearly 300 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and installations from the turn of the century to 1980 […]

We explore how it is no longer useful to think of Vincent van Gogh’s talent as a result of his poor mental health. This video contains language used by Van Gogh to describe his mental health. The way we speak about mental health has progressed since then and is always developing the more we understand. […]

From a peephole in her grandmother’s garret that rests on her master’s property, a young woman watches while remaining concealed. Inspired by the autobiography of writer, abolitionist, and escaped slave girl Harriet Jacobs (1813-97), “Loophole of Retreat” locates a space of creation within places of capture. This self-reflexive production of freedom within incarceration – a […]

From a peephole in her grandmother’s garret that rests on her master’s property, a young woman watches while remaining concealed. Inspired by the autobiography of writer, abolitionist, and escaped slave girl Harriet Jacobs (1813-97), „Loophole of Retreat“ locates a space of creation within places of capture. This self-reflexive production of freedom within incarceration – a […]

For years, New York Times Magazine has set a high bar for sophisticated editorial design, bringing together world class writing with daring typographic systems and captivating art direction. Gail Bichler has worked for the publication in many roles: as a designer, an art director, and now currently as the magazine’s design director, leading a team […]

Forest Young, a quintessential design thinker, is both global principal and head of design at Wolff Olins, the acclaimed branding firm named “one of the most innovative companies of 2018” by Fast Company. Young brings together a love for psychology and humanity with an interest in design, technology, and culture. When he’s not working for […]

In response to vociferous cultural debates that engulfed the Guggenheim Museum and other U.S. museums with in-person and online protests, the Guggenheim presented “Culture and Its Discontents” (April 6–7, 2018), a two-day public program examining the causes and effects of this growing phenomenon. The program explored the widening ideological divides in the United States, the […]

Meet the New Delhi-based artist, photographer, writer and activist, Sheba Chhachhi. Chhachhi’s ‘desire to offer an alternative reality’ prompted the artist to capture her worldview through the camera lens. Her work focuses on issues surrounding women and ecology and she was actively involved in the women’s rights movement in 1980’s. ‘I was literally shouting slogans […]

Abstract painter and influential scholar of Palestinian art Samia Halaby (b. 1936, Jerusalem) describes her creative process, followed by a conversation between the artist and curator Sasha Kalter-Wasserman. Recognized as a pioneer of contemporary abstraction, Halaby has paintings in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Her practice is […]

Sarah Sze is an artist best known for her sculpture and installation art. In this video, Sze introduces her approach to making art and describes her work ‚Seamless‘. ‚Seamless‘ was first shown in 1999 in Pittsburgh, USA, and was re-installed at Tate Modern in 2018. The artwork is inspired by painting and architecture. Using everyday […]

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 […]