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 […]

VALIE EXPORT is an Austrian avant-garde feminist artist best known for her photography and radical performances that raise discussions around the female body and the male gaze. VALIE was a mother and a housewife before beginning her artistic career when she moved to Vienna in the Sixties. ‘Feminism at the time allowed you to choose […]

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. […]

Artist Brendan Fernandes choreographed performative interventions in the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda during the museum’s 2019 Young Collectors Party on April 11, 2019. Conjuring what the artist calls “ballet kink,” Fernandes’s performances, staged continuously throughout the evening, explored notions of desire, labor, and power through choreography drawn from classical ballet and modern dance, […]

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 […]