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Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation
October 8, 2007–April 27, 2008

Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art, this exhibition will feature a compelling selection of approximately 200 artworks culled from a range of private and public collections in the United States. The exhibition will be shown in four venues, two of which will be in China (Beijing and Shanghai) and will be the most significant display of American Art ever exhibited there. The third location will be Moscow and the fourth the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Divided into six historical periods, the exhibition will demonstrate how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to a complex visual narrative of a nation during times of discovery, growth, and experimentation.

Thomas Cole, Daniel Boone at His Cabin at Great Osage Lake, c. 1826. Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 42 5/8 inches. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. Purchase, AC P.1939.7
Surreal Things
March 4ñSeptember 7, 2008

Opening in March 2008, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host the third and final venue of Surreal Things. This remarkable exhibition, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and presented on the third floor of Frank Gehryís masterpieceóitself a late-twentieth-century, Surrealist-inspired tour de forceóis the first to explore the influence of Surrealism on the world of design: on theater, interiors, fashion, film, architecture, and advertising. Showcasing nearly 200 objects drawn from public and private collections worldwideómany of which have never been exhibited beforeóSurreal Things emphasizes the tensions that arose from the increasing commercialization of Surrealismís visual aesthetic.

Displayed alongside Surrealist paintings are some of the most extraordinary objects and environments of the twentieth century, from DalÌís Mae West Lips Sofa (1938) and Lobster Telephone (1938), to fashion designer Schiaparelliís dramatic Tear and Skeleton evening dresses (both 1938), to Oppenheimís Table with Birdís Legs (1939).

Salvador DalÌ and Edward James, Mae West Lips Sofa, 1938. Wood carcass, upholstered in satin, 86.5 x 183 x 81.5 cm. The Trustees of The Edward James Foundation. Copyright Salvador DalÌ, Gala-Salvador DalÌ Foundation, DACS, London 2007.