Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

"The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo, IMUUR2"

Installation, Mixed media

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Danh Vo mines history and his own background for sculptures and installations that adroitly explore such topics as identity, authorship and geographical displacement. Born in Vietnam in 1975, Vo escaped a Cambodian refugee camp four years later, fleeing...

"No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia"

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Works by 22 artists and artist collectives from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India are featured in this survey, the first mounted under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS...

"New Harmony: Abstraction Between the Wars, 1919–1939"

Art

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This collection show of 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by some 20 artists—including Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger and Francis Picabia—concentrates on the evolution of abstract art in Europe during the interwar years...

James Turrell

Installation

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The maestro of California Light and Space Art pulls out the stops for his first New York Museum show since 1980, presenting not only vintage examples of his perception-altering installations, but also a new site-specific project that transforms the Gugg's...