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THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2014: PAUL CHAN, NONPROJECTIONS FOR NEW LOVERSLilith Wes, We Love Lucy; Wednesday Black, How To Train Your Virgin; and Andrea McGinty, God, I Don’t Even Know Your Name, 2015 From the series New Lovers (New York: Badlands Unlimited) Three books, available as paperback and e-book Photo: Badlands Unlimited (2015) |
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KAWARA—SILENCE PROGRAMSDuologues: On
Kawara
Tuesdays, 6:30 pm
Conceived by exhibition curator Jeffrey
Weiss, this series of paired talks positions On Kawara within an
interdisciplinary world context. Themes inspired by each speaker’s engagement
with Kawara’s work include everyday life, globalism, politics, language, travel,
and pictorial abstraction. An exhibition viewing and reception follows each
program.
February 24: Author Tom McCarthy and philosopher Simon
Critchley
March 24: Painter and critic David Batchelor and art
historian Briony Fer
March 31: Visual artist Emily Jacir and
scholar Nikos Papastergiadis
April 28: Visual artist Alfredo Jaar
and art historian Tom McDonough
$12, $8 members, free for students with
advance reservations. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
Eye to Eye: David Reed
Tuesday, April 14, 6:30 pm
Abstract
artist and educator David Reed leads an intimate tour of On
Kawara—Silence, sharing his perspective on a lifetime of looking at
contemporary painting. Followed by a reception.
$15, $10 members, $5
students. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
_____________ THE
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2014: PAUL CHAN, NONPROJECTIONS FOR NEW LOVERS
PROGRAMS
Badlands Unlimited Presents New
Lovers
Tuesday, March 10, 7 pm
For the launch of New
Lovers, a book series by exhibition artist Paul Chan’s press Badlands
Unlimited, emerging writers and artists Wednesday Black, Andrea McGinty, and
Lilith Wes read from their new works, which use erotica to explore the
complexities that bedevil contemporary life. The readings conclude with a
conversation with Chan and book signing. Followed by an exhibition viewing and
reception.
This program is part of the Elaine Terner Cooper Education
Fund Conversations with Contemporary Artists series.
$12, $8 members,
free for students with reservations. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/cca.
___________MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN:
INFINITE POSSIBILITY. MIRROR WORKS AND DRAWINGS 1974–2014
PROGRAMS
An Evening with
Monir
Thursday, March 12, 6 pm
Following a screening of the
documentary Monir (2014), the film’s subject, artist Monir Shahroudy
Farmanfarmaian, is joined by artist Frank Stella and curator Suzanne Cotter for
a reflection on Monir’s practice, attitudes toward abstraction, and the artistic
centers of Tehran and New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Followed by an exhibition
viewing and reception.
$12, $8 members, free for students with
reservations. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
Film Screenings: Monir
Fridays, March 20–May 29, 1 and 3
pm
Directed by Bahman Kiarostami and produced by Leyla Fakhr, the 2014
documentary Monir looks at the life and work of Iranian artist Monir
Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who first garnered attention in the 1970s for
pioneering new forms of geometric mirror works. Providing a close-up view of a
career marked by political change in her home country and abroad, the film also
traces an artistic rebirth sparked by her return to Tehran after an absence of
25 years.
Free with museum admission. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/filmscreenings.
__________MIND’S
EYE PROGRAMS
Mondays,
February 2, March 2, May 4, 6:30 pm
Wednesdays,
February 11, 2 pm
Monday, April 6, 2 pm
For visitors who are blind or have
low vision, tours and workshops focused on the Guggenheim’s spring exhibitions
are presented through Verbal Descriptions and touch.
Free with
reservations. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/mindseye.
__________CURATOR’S
EYE TOURS
Fridays,
12 pm
Private
gallery tours of the museum’s exhibitions led by Guggenheim Museum
curators.
March 13: On Kawara — Silence 
Anne
Wheeler, Assistant Curator
April 10: The Hugo Boss Prize 2014: Paul
Chan, Nonprojections for New Lovers
Susan Thompson, Assistant
Curator
April 17:Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite
Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974–2014
Karole Vail,
Associate Curator
Free with museum admission. All tours will be
interpreted in ASL. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
________FIFTH
ANNUAL ROBERT ROSENBLUM LECTUREMiriam Basilio: “Ritual and
Spectacle in Franco’s Regime”
Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 pm
In this
lecture, Miriam Basilio, Associate Professor, Art History and Museum Studies,
New York University, considers the art and culture of Spain at the time of
dictator Francisco Franco’s regime. While many are familiar with Pablo Picasso’s
Guernica (1937) and imagery of the Spanish Civil War, the propaganda of
Franco’s regime is still largely unknown. Majestic portraits and posters of the
dictator drew on Spanish baroque painting, modern photography, and contemporary
advertising, while museums and exhibitions were staged as sites of ritual,
spectacle, and national tourism, practices that recall the arts of Fascist Italy
under Benito Mussolini. Followed by a reception.
The Annual Robert
Rosenblum Lecture series honors the wide-ranging career of Rosenblum, former
Guggenheim Swid Curator of 20th-Century Art, and Henry Ittleson, Jr., Professor
of Modern European Art, New York University, whose celebrated work included
projects on Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, and the
depiction of dogs in art.
$12, $8 members, free for students with
reservations. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
_________TWENTY-SEVENTH
ANNUAL HILLA REBAY LECTURE
Hollis Clayson: “Episodes from the
Visual Culture of Electric Paris”
Tuesday, May 12, 6:30 pm
Hollis
Clayson’s (Professor of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor in the
Humanities, Northwestern University) analysis of the visual culture of the
French capital city takes root in the often overlooked fact that lighting
(éclairage) was a key attribute of the City of Light in the nineteenth
century. Clayson maintains that the forms of artificial illumination, their
visual properties, and the era’s debates about them provided circumstances that
stimulated aesthetically innovative art. In this lecture, Clayson will analyze
the work of John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and Mary Cassatt, and several of
the era’s leading caricaturists.
The Annual Hilla Rebay Lecture brings distinguished scholars to the
Guggenheim Museum to examine significant issues in the theory, criticism, and
history of art.
Free. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar