The Guggenheim's European holdings are the reason the museum exists, and this display puts the moment abstraction became inevitable on one set of walls: Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova pushing color and flattened form past what representation could hold. Curators Megan Fontanella and Vivien Greene frame it around what those artists reached for rather than abandoned. With the rotunda closed, this is what is open.
What to expect
A collection display in the gallery levels rather than the rotunda ramp, compact enough to see thoroughly in half an hour. The spiral rotunda is closed while the museum installs its next major exhibition.
Good to know
- The spiral rotunda is closed for installation, so plan around the gallery levels
- 4, 5 or 6 to 86th Street then a walk west to Fifth Avenue
- Confirm on the museum site what is open before you travel
- It pairs directly with the Pop exhibition in the same gallery levels
- Advance timed tickets are the fastest way in
- Central Park is directly across the street for a break afterward
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Common questions
Which artists are featured?
Natalia Goncharova, Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc among others, all drawn from the Guggenheim's collection.
Is the rotunda open?
No. The spiral rotunda is temporarily closed while a major new exhibition is installed.
Who organized the exhibition?
Megan Fontanella, Curator of Modern Art and Provenance, and Vivien Greene, Senior Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art.
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