Guggenheim Museum

James Turrell shapes perceptions

2013-05-11 08:00:00

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...

Facebook cleared to break ground on second Menlo Park campus

2013-03-28 16:45:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Frank Gehry is about to update the status of Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook got the go-ahead this week for the architect to build a second campus there. The City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday night to allow the giant social network to...

L.A.'s art world presents a super-sized spring

2013-03-08 06:30:00

Super-sized exhibitions are becoming more common in art museums, and the next few months will see several among the notable new shows opening around town. Chronologically, here's a selection of what's coming up in art this spring, including three really...

Celebrity wardrobe hits and misses of 2012

2012-12-30 00:00:00

Strike a pose If you're Madonna and you plan to stage the most fashionable Super Bowl halftime show in years, there's only one way to kick it off: Perform the 1990 smash hit "Vogue" as classic Vogue covers are projected on stage. The Queen of Pop's...

Father Maur van Doorslaer dies at 87; famed for folksy plaques

2013-02-07 00:00:00

Father Maur van Doorslaer lived a kind of double life. For decades, the Benedictine monk spent half the year working in a studio at an abbey in Belgium, painting abstract art in varying shades of white. For the other half, he took in the High Desert...

Catherine Opie's documentary photography is on display

2013-01-27 08:00:00

The room is arranged like a gallery, hung with photographs of various sizes and shapes, framed and unframed, surrounding the artist Catherine Opie, who looks pleased as she observes from a rocking chair. This studio built behind her house in West...

Review: Frank Gehry fishes for the perfect form at Gagosian

2013-01-24 16:40:00

“Fish Lamps,” currently on view at Gagosian, is a return to a familiar form for architect Frank Gehry. He created his first set of glowing, fish-shaped sculptures in 1984 as a commission for the Formica Corp., using their plastic laminate...

Proposed tower for Phoenix resembles Apple Maps' drop pin

2013-01-16 12:35:00

An observation tower that has been proposed as a landmark for downtown Phoenix is being dubbed the "Big Pin" because of its likeness to that of the drop pins used in the iPhone's Apple Maps app. The tower would be 420 feet tall, and at the top, it would...

Danh Vo wins 2012 Hugo Boss Prize from Guggenheim Foundation

2012-11-01 16:23:00

Artist Danh Vo has been named the winner of the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, which is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. Vo, who was born in Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Denmark, will have a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New...

Frank Gehry endows new annual prize at SCI-Arc

2012-09-06 07:20:00

Architect Frank Gehry has made a new donation to the�Southern California Institute of Architecture, and as a result, the school is naming a new prize after him. SCI-Arc announced Wednesday that Gehry, a trustee of the school since 1990, and his wife,...

John Chamberlain dies at 84; American sculptor

2011-12-23 00:00:00

John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84. Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...

Frank Gehry designs official poster for Grammy Awards

2011-12-09 16:32:58

Lady Gaga maintained her reputation as the world's leading Dadaist performance artist when she threw the launch party for her new perfume, Fame, at New York's Guggenheim Museum. Guests got to watch Gaga as she feigned sleep while lying inside a giant reproduction of a Fame perfume bottle.

2012-09-13 00:00:00

With McKim, Mead & White's Municipal Building and its triumphal arch in the foreground, the boldly-curving, stainless steel exterior of Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street juts above lower Manhattan .

2011-08-10 00:00:00

, and it's springtime. The combination begets baseball. Depending on your travel date, take a trip out to the Bronx, to New Yankee Stadium. Spring brings out model sailboaters too.

2011-04-15 13:04:32