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Abu Dhabi sets opening dates for Guggenheim, Louvre

AFP - Jan 25, 2012
ABU DHABI — The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi announced Wednesday that the satellite Louvre art gallery will open its doors in 2015 and the Guggenheim museum in 2017, about three years later than expected. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Development and Investment ...

Culture minister bleak on Guggenheim

YLE News - Jan 26, 2012
Culture minister Paavo Arhinmäki has reiterated his earlier view that his ministry cannot participate in funding a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki. He says that the Helsinki brand is stronger than that of Guggenheim and the museum would profit more from ...

Guggenheim Presents New Works in Film, Video, Sound by South Asian Artists

Broadway World - Jan 23, 2012
The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Being Singular Plural, the first exhibition of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to focus exclusively on artistic production in South Asia, presents new film, video, and sound-based works by seven of the most ...

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Maurizio Cattelan: All

by: Nancy Spector
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art--most notoriously with "The Ninth Hour," his 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique. Maurizio Cattelan: All.
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Story of Architecture

by: Jonathan Glancey
Guiding readers through a staggering 5,000 years of world architecture, Jonathan Glancey's eminently knowledgeable, authoritative, and always fascinating insights make reading this book irresistible, despite the enormity of the subject. Featuring influential and innovative architects of every age, along with their masterpieces, from the ziggurat at Ur to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this stylish, lavishly illustrated book shows the unique historical, geographical, and cultural elements that have influenced and literally shaped the world's greatest architecture.
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13 Buildings Children Should Know

by: Annette Roeder
Children's fascination with buildings is a natural outgrowth of their curiosity about anything strange or huge or complex. This unique book brings together thirteen architectural wonders that have intrigued children for years. Through activities such as games, quizzes, drawings and other activities, it teaches them the history behind each of the buildings, and presents fascinating facts about the design, historical use, and construction techniques. This book features pyramids built by men with pulleys, a tower that leans, an opera house shaped like a sailboat, a museum built like a spiral, and the most recent example, a bird's nestA" stadium where the 2008 summer Olympics were held.
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Basque Country: Bilbao and the Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao has recently been transformed from a gritty steel town to a happening cultural center like no other Spanish city. A modern light rail line conveniently laces the old town with points along the river and to the sight which spearheaded Bilbao's urban renaissance: the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.

 

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Guggenheim Museum is part of the New York CityPass program along with the Empire State Building Observatory, American Museum of Natural History & Rose Center, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises and Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island. New York CityPass is a carefully selected collection of New Yorks most popular, most famous attractions, priced a whopping 44% less than the cost of tickets purchased separately. The CityPass youth price (ages 13-17) shaves 42% off individual ticket prices. New York CityPass is valid for nine days.

 

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TimeWarner Cable customers in NY & NJ can view the full episode on local On Demand Channel 1111 in the Around NY category. This segment features an exploration of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Producer Liz Iasiello Coordinating Producer Dave Schwalbe Executive Producer Jeff Shelly

 

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Guggenheim Museum New York

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened its doors on October 21, 1959 and is one of the best-known museums in New York City and one of the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the museum, which is often called simply The Guggenheim, is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art, and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.

 

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Arts: Guggenheim Museum Turns 50 -- NYTimes.com/Video

As it turns 50, the Guggenheim in New York City remains a radical model for an art museum. Nicolai Ouroussoff, The Times's chief architecture critic, takes a retrospective look at the museum.