programs
Gallery Talks
Curator's Eye
Join Guggenheim Museum curators for tours of current exhibitions. Tours held on the following Fridays @ 2 p.m.
Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art
Mar. 21, Apr. 25, and May 9
Sandhini Poddar, Assistant Curator of Asian Art
Mar. 28 and Apr. 11
Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design
May 2 and 16
Public Programs
Public Programs take place in the Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Sackler Center for Arts Education. For more information: 212 423 3587.
I Want to Believe
Fri., Feb. 22 @ 7 p.m.
This special conversation between curators and artist presents the creative forces behind the organization of Cai Guo-Qiang's spectacular retrospective. A book signing by the artist follows the program.
Participants: Thomas Krens, Alexandra Munroe, and Cai Guo-Qiang
$10 ($7 members, students, and seniors)
Reimagining the Cultural Revolution
Wed., Mar. 19 @ 6:30 p.m.
Cai Guo-Qiang’s recuperation and interrogation of Maoist revolutionary tactics as acts of a socialist utopianism are key to the context of his work. The panel, which includes major figures in Chinese contemporary art, scholarship, and the avant-garde, examines the history of these subjects as well as communitarian approaches to art making, including a reliance on agitprop and spectacle.
Moderator: Carma Hinton, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University
Participants: Li Xianting, independent curator/critic, Beijing; Wang Mingxian, independent scholar/curator, Beijing; Zhang Hongtu, artist, New York
$10 ($7 members, students, and seniors)
Images from Wind Shadow
Thurs., Apr. 3 @ 2 and 8 p.m.
Conceived as “moving installation art” by Cai Guo-Qiang and Lin Hwai-min, Artistic Director and Founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, "Images from Wind Shadow" creates a vision of ethereal black–and–white beauty based on the themes of wind and shadow. Through choreographed lighting and explosion events projected onto moving surfaces of performers and flags, this United States premiere transforms the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda.
Produced by Works & Process and the Guggenheim Museum.
Tickets on sale after March 10. $50 Ticket; $80 Premium Ticket
Food, Sex, and Art
Fri., Apr. 4 @ 6:30 p.m.
For Cai Guo-Qiang, an exhibition is far more than a fixed assembly of objects; it is a live event that exists as a constantly evolving process in time and space. Objects activate social interactions and propel astonishing flashes of insight. Every aspect of the exhibition’s preparation, installation, catalogue, and public programs thus reveals itself as one piece of his larger ecosystem. This approach has inspired Cai to host this discussion about food, sex, and art.
Participants: David Bouley, restauranteur; Cai Guo-Qiang, artist; Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist
$10 ($7 members, students, and seniors)
Hans Belting: Global Art and the Museum (GAM)
Tues., Apr. 15 @ 6:30 p.m.
Against the backdrop of Cai Guo-Qiang as a global artist, Hans Belting presents GAM, the first initiative to document a new museum geography mirroring the globalization of the visual arts. GAM proposes art museums operate in a local frame, while facing different audiences with an equally different notion of art and modernity.
$10 ($7 members, students, and seniors)
Exploding Chinese Art: The Economy of Art/The Art of the Economy
Wed., May 14 @ 6:30 p.m.
In a lively conversation at the Asia Society, scholars, artists, and dealers explore the “economic explosion” reflected in the contemporary Chinese art market and the Chinese economy. Reception and private exhibition viewing follows at the Guggenheim Museum.
Box office 212 517 ASIA or tickets.asiasociety.org.
$10 ($7 members, students, and seniors)
