By Kim Velsey 8/29/12 7:34pm

Manhattan Transfers

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Thomas Kren Sell Tribeca Triplex Loft.

Deaccessioning: Guggenheim Guru Thomas Krens Sells Tribeca Loft for $6.3 M.

During his 20-year tenure as the director of the S0lomon R. Guggenheim foundation and its global network of museums here and abroad, Thomas Krens courted controversy by selling off older pieces in the collection to buy new ones. It appears that he does not approach offloading real estate with the same equanimity.

After briefly listing his 4,450-square-foot Tribeca triplex for $5.5 million in 2005—generating rumors that he was not much longer for the Guggenheim’s top spot—Mr. Krens took the condo off the market, and there it stayed for the next seven years. Read More

By Sarah Grothjan 7/02/12 4:26pm

New York State of Direction

He knows where he's going. Do you? (PeterJBellis, flickr)

Lost in New York? Don’t ask a New Yorker

Aside from their adherence to sidewalk etiquette and an affinity for one-handing pizza, when they put their feet to the street New Yorkers may not differ as much from their touristy brethren as they thought they did.

A New York Post survey of 100 New Yorkers showed that an overwhelming number don’t know where basic Big Apple landmarks are, making them little better than the confused Times Square tourists trying to navigate the city.

Apparently, only 32 percent of New York residents know where the Guggenheim is and only 21 percent can name the location of The Algonquin, the New York Post reports. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/15/11 12:00pm

fall arts preview

The Fall of Relational Aesthetics

The Fall of Relational Aesthetics

Occasionally exhibitions of contemporary art are eerily timely. Curatorial programs click into step with the zeitgeist, and notions that have been floating around in the air coalesce in concrete form, in a museum near you. Such will be the case in New York this fall, as the Guggenheim and the New Museum unveil retrospectives of two midcareer European artists who have never before had surveys in the U.S. The two are old friends and collaborators, and their concurrent shows are almost certain to provoke heated debates about the health and importance of contemporary art.

Meet Italian prankster Maurizio Cattelan and Belgian mad scientist Carsten Höller. Read More

By Adam Lindemann 9/06/11 2:15pm

Art

Krens. (Patrick McMullan)

What Ever Happened to Tom Krens?

Last fall it was reported that the great Tom Krens was off the Guggenheim’s Abu Dhabi project, which seemed like big news because Mr. Krens was the creative mind and promoter of the project, but what’s even more strange is that we haven’t heard boo from the art world’s consummate museum showman since. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 8/31/11 8:52am

Art

Eli Broad Art Museum

Guggenheim’s Min Jung Kim Named Deputy Director of Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

As it nears its spring 2012 opening date, the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, is filling out the remainder of its leadership, announcing that Min Jung Kim, who has been at the Guggenheim for 12 years, will be its new deputy director.

“It is rare to be able to help shape a museum from its beginning,” said Ms. Kim in a statement, “and I look forward to the opportunity.” Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/03/11 10:22am

The Eight-Day Week

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The Eight-Day Week: August 3-August 10

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 3

The Ultimate Art Machine

Is the Guggenheim the Shake Shack of museums? Locations, locations, locations! Not content with outposts in the Basque Country and the United Arab Emirates (as well as the now-shuttered Las Vegas outpost, which seems in retrospect a bit of an overreach…to Read More

By Ruirui Kuang 5:20pm

Art World

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They Loved Jonah Bokaer's Paperwork at the Guggenheim

At the Guggenheim’s rotunda on Thursday evening, five dancers, accompanied by John Cage’s solo cello piece One8, performed On Vanishing, a new work by the young New York-based choreographer Jonah Bokaer that the museum had commissioned in conjunction with its current exhibition, Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity.

Audience members, including Mr. Bokaer’s mother, leaned against the museum’s low, spiraling Read More

By W.M. Akers 5/04/11 9:23pm

Art

What Is It About The Germans? They’re Invading!

Uptown, there’s a cozy little theater whose plush carpeting gives it the feel of a 1970s swinger’s palace. The lusty cries heard coming from its basement doors last weekend only added to the thrill. Inside, the Dutch troupe Dood Paard (Dead Horse) spent two mostly naked hours bouncing on a pile of vintage mattresses, howling Read More