Summer 2017 Public Programs Announced at the Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the following public programs and film series from the Sackler Center for Arts Education in conjunction with the exhibitions Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap, and Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897, as well as special programming on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright, and extended hours on Tuesday during the summer season. MORE >

Summer Tuesdays Extended Hours

TUESDAYS, JUNE 20-AUGUST 29, 5:45-9 PM

The Guggenheim Museum is open late on Tuesdays this summer. Engage with exhibitions on view during extendEd Gallery hours to 9 pm, as well as other special programming. EnJoy Small plates in our newly renovated Cafe 3 and a cash bar in the rotunda.

150th Birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright

The Guggenheim Museum celebrates the 150th birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, throughout the month of June with a range of activities, including architecture-specific tours of the museum and family programs. The Guggenheim Store will also feature new Wright-related merchandise.

Architecture Tours

SUNDAYS, JUNE 4-25, 2 PM

Join a museum educator trained in art, art history, and gallery teaching for a guided exploration of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic museum building.

Free with museum admission. Meet on the Rotunda floor. No registration is required. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/flw150.

Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th Birthday Celebration

THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 10 AM-5:45 PM

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Wright's birth through a series of activities related to the architect's masterwork: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The celebration kicks off on Thursday, June 8-Wright's 150th birthday-with a special reduced admission fee of $1.50. Guggenheim's newly renovated Cafe 3 will feature large-scale, rarely seen photographs of the museum during its construction and will add a special birthday cupcake to the day's menu. An actor-historian portraying Frank Lloyd Wright will be on-site engaging with visitors between 9 am and 1 pm.

For more information, visit guggenheim.org/flw150.

Curator's Eye Tour of the Guggenheim

THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 12-1 PM

Join Ashley Mendelsohn, Curatorial Assistant, Architecture & Digital Initiatives, for a focused tour of one of the architect's most celebrated buildings, the Guggenheim Museum, on the occasion of the architect's 150th birthday.

Free with museum admission. Meet at the Information desk. No RSVP required. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/flw150.

Drawing the Guggenheim

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 10 AM-1 PM

Develop a deeper understanding of the Guggenheim's architecture with a workshop that uses drawing to study Frank Lloyd Wright's design. After a slideshow presentation and tour, participants draw from various perspectives as a way of seeing the Guggenheim more deeply, and then reflect on their discoveries together. No drawing experience is required.

$25 to participate (includes museum admission and materials). The workshop is limited to twenty participants. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/flw150.

Second Sunday Family Tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th Birthday Celebration

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 10:30 AM-12 PM

This family-oriented exploration of the Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum incorporates conversation and creative, hands-on gallery activities. It is part of the ongoing series Second Sunday Family Tours, which occurs on the second Sunday of every month.

$20 per family (includes museum admission and tour for two adults and up to four children), $15 members, free for Family and Kids Club members, and Cool Culture families. Registration required at guggenheim.org/flw150.

Little Guggs: Frank Lloyd Wright Summer Celebration

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 11 AM-12 PM

Caregivers with children ages 2-4. Designed for little art lovers and their parents and guardians, this program focuses on Frank Lloyd Wright and his design for the Guggenheim. After a short story, children and their caregivers will explore the interior of the building then make works of art inspired by the tour in the studio.

$30 per family (includes museum admission, materials, and snacks), $15 members. For more information, or to register, visit guggenheim.org/flw150.

Frank Lloyd Wright 150 Family Tour and Studio Workshop

SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

For families with children eight and up. Join a museum educator for an exploration of the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building, followed by a special architecture and construction workshop.

$30 per family (includes admission, workshop materials, and tour for two adults and up to four children); $20 members; free for Family Members, Kids Club Members, and Cool Culture families. For more information, or to register, visit guggenheim.org/flw150.

Visionaries Programs

For more information and the latest offered programs, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

Eye to Eye: Julia Dault

TUESDAY, MAY 23, 6:30 PM

Contemporary artist Julia Dault leads a session in our Eye to Eye series, a sequence of intimate, artist-lEd Gallery tours of Visionaries. In this after-hours conversation, she reflects on select works in the exhibition while sharing perspectives on her own creative process. A reception follows the tour.

$25, $20 members, $12 students. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

Collection In Focus

SELECT WEDNESDAYS, MAY 31, JUNE 14, JULY 12, 12 PM

Join a curator and conservator in the galleries for an in-depth discussion of topics including new historical research and scientific conservation studies and analyses.

May 31: Pablo Picasso's Woman Ironing (1904)
Megan Fontanella, Curator, Collections and Provenance, and Julie Barten, Senior Conservator, Collections and Exhibitions

June 14: Alexander Calder's Red Lily Pads (1956)
Tracy Bashkoff, Senior Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, and Nathan Otterson, Senior Conservator, Objects

July 12: Works on paper by Paul Klee
Megan Fontanella, Curator, Collections and Provenance, and Jeffrey Warda, Conservator, Paper and Photographs

Free with museum admission. Limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tours meet at the Information desk. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

Lucy Raven: Subterrestrial Cinema

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 6:30 PM

In this new live work, collection artist Lucy Raven presents a journey into a truly underground cinema. Staged in the Guggenheim's Peter B. Lewis Theater, Raven's piece weaves animations and other materials from the museum's archives together with new text, films, and sound, creating an alternate prehistory of cinema that links science fiction, effects technology, and nonobjective film. Audience members are invited to enjoy the museum's extended hours following the program.

$15, $10 members, $5 students. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

One Hour, One Object Tours

WEDNESDAYS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 6, 2 PM

Join a museum educator trained in art, art history, and gallery teaching to spend an hour focusing in detail on one work of art through conversation and close looking.

Free with museum admission. Meet on the Rotunda floor. No registration is required. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap Program

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: An Evening with Anicka Yi

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 6:30 PM

Anicka Yi joins a panel of interlocutors including art historian Caroline A. Jones and author Jeff VanderMeer. The panelists reflect on topics of shared interest, including "biofiction," technology, and politics, in an interdisciplinary discussion organized in conjunction with The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap. Audience members are invited to enjoy the museum's extended hours following the program.

$15, $10 members, students free with RSVP. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin: . . . circle through New York Program

Open House Day

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 11 AM-5 PM

All six . . . circle through New York locations extend their hours and host special events throughout the day. Appear on a Punjabi TV show, teach Pinkie the parrot new words, and bring your dog to the South Bronx to hear the oldest song in the world. At the Guggenheim from 12 to 3 pm, a drama class from the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts presents site-specific performances developed during a May residency at the museum.

Free with admission. For more information, visit CircleThroughNewYork.com.

Mystical Symbolism Program

Vexations

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26-27, 7 PM-1 PM

This durational concert presents Erik Satie's Vexations (1893). Satie composed this iconic piece on the heels of breaking off his involvement with the Salon de la Rose+Croix. It is unknown whether Satie intended for the work to be played or if it were simply a sort of jest directed at the esoteric excesses of Joséphin Péladan, the founder of the Salon. But the unlikely piece attracted the attention of John Cage, who first staged it. Cage organized a concert in New York in 1963 featuring contemporary musicians such as John Cale, James Tenney, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff. Observing one of Satie's "instructions" literally, the score was repeated 840 times (the performance lasted almost 19 hours), in an unprecedented serial undertaking that echoed the Minimalist and Conceptual concerns of the 1960s. More than 50 years later, the Guggenheim will once again present Vexations to a New York audience.

Ticketing information announced in June. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

Film Programs

The Future That Is upon Us

TUESDAYS, AUGUST 1-22, 3 AND 6 PM

This selection of shorts, artist films, music videos, animations, and feature-length presentations explores how the artistic techniques employed and the ideas grappled with by artists whose work is on view in Visionaries are still at play on present-day screens. Historic cinema screened during the day is paired with work by contemporary filmmakers in the evening, responding to different themes each week.

August 1: FiLM Concerts, Exploring Abstraction in Motion

August 8: Surreal Screenings, Oneiric Revolutions Against Reality

August 15: Synthetic Moving Images, Assembling a Set for a Fairy Tale

August 22: Alt-Progress, Embodied Anxiety

Screenings take place in the New Media Theater, Lower Level, and are free with admission. Full schedule announced in June. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/filmscreenings.

Art After Dark

FRIDAY, JULY 7, 9 PM-MIDNIGHT; EXCLUSIVE MEMBERS' HOUR: 8-9 PM

An after-hours private viewing of current exhibitions, including Visionaries and Mystical Symbolism, that features a cash bar and live musical entertainment.

Free for members, $25 general admission. Purchase tickets online in advance or become a member. Cash bar serves wine and beer. Guests will be asked for a photo ID. Limited general admission tickets will go on sale closer to the event date. No tickets are sold at the door. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/artafterdark.

Mind's Eye Tours

SELECT MONDAYS, 6:30 PM, AND SELECT WEDNESDAYS, 2 PM

Monthly Mind's Eye tours and workshops for visitors who are blind or have low vision are conducted by arts and education professionals through verbal description, conversation, sensory experiences, and creative practice.

Wednesday, May 10, 2 pm: The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap

Monday, June 12, 6:30 pm: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim

Wednesday, July 19, 2 pm: Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim

Monday, August 7, 6:30 pm: Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim

Wednesday, September 13, 2 pm: Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897

Free. RSVP required one week prior to program date. To RSVP or for more information, visit guggenheim.org/mindseye.

Curator's Eye Tours

SELECT WEDNESDAYS, 12 PM

Curator's Eye programs provide an opportunity for visitors to explore the museum's exhibitions, collections, and architecture on a tour led by a Guggenheim curator or conservator with expert knowledge of the work on view.

June 28: The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap with Susan Thompson, Assistant Curator

July 19: Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 with Ylinka Barotto, Curatorial Assistant

August 23: Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897 with Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art

For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.

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Photo: Kristopher McKay