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 […]

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 […]

From 2012 to 2018, the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative offered direct access to contemporary art and education on a global scale. Through in-depth collaboration with artists, curators, and cultural organizations around the world, MAP built physical and digital experiences that brought art and ideas to life. Visit guggenheim.org/MAP for more information. source

John F. Simon Jr. navigates through and discusses his interactive, web artwork „Unfolding Object“ (2002), which was recently restored as part of the Guggenheim’s Conserving Computer-Based Art initiative. After Simon introduces the different behaviors and possibilities of „Unfolding Object,“ he elaborates on the work’s various influences. source

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 […]