Peggy Guggenheim Collection

YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video (New York, USA)

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, together with YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, today announced the launch of YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. A collaboration with HP, YouTube Play was conceived to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Open to the global online community, YouTube Play is the most inclusive international search for new creative video.

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Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia) hosts Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice

Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice
Art Gallery of Western Australia
October 9, 2010 – January 31, 2011
This autumn the public will have the unique opportunity of seeing world-class works of art normally on display in Venice, Italy, when the Art Gallery of Western Australia hosts Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice (October 9, 2010 – January 31, 2011), the first exhibition of a new series entitled Great Collections of the World.

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May 2010: the return of HAPPYSPRITZ@GUGGENHEIM!

After its successful debut in 2009, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Aperol invite visitors to HAPPYSPRITZ@GUGGENHEIM, the ‘art’ aperitif, which last year attracted to the museum over 4,000 people who shared a cocktail of culture, music and Aperol in the magical setting of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. Every Monday in May (3, 10, 17, 24 and 31), from 7pm till 9.30pm, Peggy’s palazzo will open its doors again to young people, as well as the less young, for an evening rendezvous in the name of art, music and spritz.

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Peggy in Venice. Photographed by Nino Migliori

Peggy in Venice. Photographed by Nino Migliori
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
April 7– July 26, 2010
In 1958, Peggy Guggenheim was photographed by celebrated Italian photographer Nino Migliori (b. 1929) in her Venetian home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, now the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year. Led by his considerable intellectual curiosity, Nino Migliori spent much time in Venice in the late 1950s. He frequented artists such as Emilio Vedova, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Giuseppe Santomaso, Virgilio Guidi and occasionally even Peggy Guggenheim, who was a focal point for Italian Abstract painters in post-war years, particularly Vedova and Tancredi.

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30 YEARS ON: Peggy Guggenheim Collection

“To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.” This well-known sentiment, from an essay by Peggy Guggenheim in a 1962 book by Michelangelo Muraro (Invitation to Venice), expresses the American collector’s feelings about Venice, where, after a nomadic life between Europe and the United States, she decided to make her home in 1948. A year later she acquired Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal, where she both lived and exhibited her collection of modern art, opening the palazzo to the public each summer from 1951 to 1979. At Easter 1980, not long after Peggy Guggenheim’s death (23 December 1979), Palazzo Venier opened to the public for the first time under the auspices of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

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Utopia Matters. From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus

Utopia Matters. From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
May 1 – July 25, 2010
The realization of a utopian society has always been an aspiration of humankind, but its achievement
has been countered by the paradoxically dictatorial precepts upon which it must be founded.

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The Avant-Gardes of Abstraction

Peggy and Solomon R. Guggenheim: The Avant-Gardes of Abstraction
Church of San Marco
February 20 – May 30, 2010
The exhibition Peggy and Solomon R. Guggenheim: The Avant-Gardes of Abstraction opens to the public on 20 February 2010, in the Arca exhibition space in the former Church of San Marco, Vercelli.

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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection closes 2009 with over 360,000 visitors

In 2009 The Peggy Guggenheim Collection consolidated its attendance numbers, reaching the considerable total of 347,183 visitors in the 311 days it was open to the public. The daily average was 1,116, which included 5,263 students and 622 teachers who participated in the museum’s education program “A Scuola di Guggenheim”. To this number the 14,000 […]

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Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Peggy Guggenheim Collection The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum was inaugurated in 1980 and presents Peggy Guggenheim’s […]

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