The Guggenheim Museum Opens in a Building Designed by Wright
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Arts, Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: New York City
- Date: October 21, 1959
Article abstract: Frank Lloyd Wright’s controversial spiral design for the Guggenheim Museum changed the historic relationship between museum form and function and made architects and architecture newsworthy.
Summary of Event
In the 1930’s, Solomon R. Guggenheim stopped buying the old master paintings popular with his fellow millionaires. Inspired by the German artist and curator Hilla Rebay, he began to collect contemporary art. Guggenheim and Rebay focused on nonrepresentational painting and sculpture by avant-garde Europeans such as Wassily...
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