Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) will represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale. The exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America opens to the public in the Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy on 10 June and runs through 21 November 2007.
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Designation Honors Museum Founder's Gifts and Purchases from 1937 to 1949 and Commemorates 70th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Foundation's Creation. Selections from the Founding Collection on View in the Exhibition Solomon's Gift: The Founding Collection of the Guggenheim, 1937-1949, April 14-September 30, 2007.
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Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of American art to come to China and the first to fully reflect the entire history of art in the United States-will be on view at the Shanghai Museum and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art from May 1, 2007, through June 30, 2007.
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Artists' Notions of Space from Early 20th Century to Present Explored through Large-Scale Installations, Paintings, Sculptures, Photographs, Videos, and Site-Specific Works from 14 April To 5 September, 2007. The Exhibition is named "The Shapes of Space"Â.
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From April 27 to August 6, 2007, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy, the first exhibition in the United States to focus on Italian Divisionism-a style so named for its painting technique, which employed the "division"Â of vibrant color through brushstrokes-and to examine its relationship to French Neo-Impressionism.
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An exhibition of the work of British artist Tacita Dean, winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2006, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from February 23 through June 6, 2007. Dean works with such diverse mediums as drawing, sound, and found objects, but she is perhaps best know for her compelling 16mm films, two of which will be featured in the Guggenheim exhibition, along with an examples of her found and photographic work.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced today that the recently recovered Francisco de Goya Lucientes painting Children with a Cart (1778) will join the exhibition Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on February 16, 2007.
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President George H. W. Bush has agreed to be the Honorary Chair of the Honorary Committee for Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation, it was announced today by Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. The exhibition, organized by the Guggenheim in partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, is the first survey of American art ever to be presented in the People's Republic of China.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao announced a major acquisition for its permanent collection: Cy Twombly's Discourse on Commodus, a series composed of nine paintings from 1963. Discourse on Commodus was created in Rome during a seminal period in the artist's career when he had begun to develop a more subjective visual language that incorporated snatches of text and elusive signs and symbols.
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Linda Macklowe has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, it was announced today by William Mack, the Foundation's Chairman. Mrs. Macklowe's election took place at the January 24, 2007, meeting of the Board.
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced that it is unable to present Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of David and Goya in New York in the Spring/Summer of 2007 as originally planned. This change is due to the extensive restoration of the museum's exterior that is currently underway.
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FAMILY PICTURES
February 9-April 16, 2007
Family Pictures, an exhibition drawn from the museum's collection, explores the representation of families and children in contemporary photography and video. Since its inception in the mid-19th century, photography has always been used to represent the bonds of family, whether through portraiture or documents of important familial milestones. In these images, fleeting moments of childhood are captured and preserved while the family unit is fixed for posterity.
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