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.
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection
Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi
June 6th, 2009
“Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection”—an exhibition curated by Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami—will open simultaneously in the newly renovated spaces of Punta della Dogana and at Palazzo Grassi. This exhibition signals the Francois Pinault Foundation’s desire to develop an artistic program at the highest level and its long-lasting commitment to contemporary culture in the city of Venice.
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 […]
Zoran Music. Estreme figure Palazzo Franchetti – Venice from 3 December 2009 to 7 March 2010. Venice pays homage to Zoran Music (Gorizia 1909 – Venice 2005) with a major, highly refined exhibition commemorating the centenary of the artist’s birth. An artist of international standing, viewed as one of the key figures of the twentieth […]
Prendergast in Italy Peggy Guggenheim Collection October 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010
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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 […]