By Kim Velsey 9/17/12 8:35am

Manhattan Transfers

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Guggenheim Director Buys Co-op For $1.77 Million

Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong Ditches Rental For Modest $1.8 M. Co-op (It’s No Downtown Loft)

Nowhere is the difference between current Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong and his showy predecessor Thomas Krens more apparent than in the two men’s homes.

While Mr. Krens installed himself in a sprawling Tribeca loft, borrowing cash from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to help fund the purchase, Mr. Armstrong has just upgraded—if we can call it that—from a distinguished two-bedroom rental to a dowdy two-bedroom co-op at 150 East 69th Street that he bought with his long-time partner Dorsey Waxter, according to city records. Read More

By Drew Grant 3/19/12 2:38pm

Improv Everywhere

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Improv Everywhere's Guggenheim stunt (YouTube)

Guggenheim Gets Involved with Improv Everywhere’s ‘Sleeper Car’ Stunt…For Art! (Video)

Last May, The New York Times ran an article about a transit performance piece that turned the L train into a high-class restaurant for several stops. Waiters brought out brunch for participants, who tried not to spill their panna cotta all over their lap as the subway lurched back and forth.

The exhibition smelled of an Improv Everywhere stunt, but as the Times pointed out, it was actually a collaboration with several big name restaurants. We felt deceived! Now its impossible to tell the difference between a no-pants subway ride by Improv Everywhere’s Charlie Todd and a staged public exhibition planned by a larger entity…especially when the two team up together.

That’s what happened when stillspotting nyc– a Guggenheim Museum Urban Studies project–asked Mr. Todd’s help to create a  “Sleeper Car” in a New York subway. Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/10/10 3:57am

Shindigger

Champagne at the Guggenheim

“I’m sorry, we’re out of Champagne,” the bartender told a striking woman who stood before him in the Guggenheim’s stirring atrium, where the grand white gallery ramps rise in curling white eddies–all leading to Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic skylight. A sampling of uptown glitterati (and the highest echelon of museum board members) had gathered for Read More

By Julia Halperin 7/30/10 12:11am

Art Snapshot

Art Snapshot: Rise of the Masses!

An average Joe discovers a $200 million trove of Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale, struggling art vendors protest new regulations, and flip-flop wearing bargain hunters clamor for Lawrence Salander’s belongings. This week in art news: don’t forget the little guy.

1. YouTube Play Generates Buzz and Frustration
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By Victor Epstein 7/28/10 2:09am

Art Calendar

Young Art

There’s nothing quite like gazing at an Impressionist exhibit to the mellow sound of “Mommmm, can we go yet?” Any parent who has tried to instill love of art and culture into children knows it can be a challenge. Luckily, many New York City museums have special programs aimed for children.

 

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