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Vasily Kandinsky,  Blue Mountain, 1908–09. Oil on canvas, 283.87 x 245 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim 41.505. © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Kandinsky

September 18, 2009–January 13, 2010

This is the first, full-scale retrospective of Kandinsky's career in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim culminated its trio of ground-breaking exhibitions of the artist’s life and work in Munich, Russia, and Paris.

Rob Pruitt Presents: The First Annual Art Awards

October 29, 2009

Conceived by artist Rob Pruitt as a performance-based artwork, The First Annual Art Awards is a new annual art event that celebrates select individuals, exhibitions, and projects that have made a significant impact on the field of contemporary art during the past year.

 
 

Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Memory, 2008. Cor-Ten steel, 14.5 x 8.97 x 4.48  meters. Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim. Installation view: Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, 2008. Photo: Mathias Schormann

Anish Kapoor: Memory

October 21, 2009–March 28, 2010

Memory (2008), a new commissioned Cor-Ten steel sculptural installation by leading international artist Anish Kapoor made its debut at Deutsche Guggenheim in fall 2008. The exhibition opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 21, 2009, and will remain on view until March 28, 2010.

 

Anish Kapoor, Ascension (Red), 2009. © Anish Kapoor

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda

February 19–May 16, 2010

On the occasion of the museum's 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim has invited approximately 250 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream intervention in Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda.

 

Douglas Gordon, Bootleg (Empire), 1995. Video installation, dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift of the artist, 2004.99

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

March 26–September 6, 2010

Haunted sets out to examine the myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, in the process underscoring the unique power of reproductive media, and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual.