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TOURS
Tours are free with museum admission. All tour times are subject to change. For daily schedules, consult the electronic signboard located near the Admission Desk.
A Curatorial Eye
Join Guggenheim Museum curators for tours of current exhibitions. Tours held on the following Tuesdays @ 11 AM.
JUN 13 , JUN 20, and SEPT 19: Susan Davidson, Curator
SEPT 12 and SEPT 26: Robin Kaye Goodman, Curatorial Assistant
An Educator’s Eye
Join members of the Guggenheim’s education staff for interactive discussions of the current exhibitions. Tours held on the following Fridays @ 2 PM.
JUN 16: Rosanna Flouty, Manager, New Media
JUN 23: Kim Kanatani, Gail Engelberg Director of Education
JUL 7: Ryan Hill, Manager, Adult Interpretive Programs
JUL 21: Sharon Vatsky, Senior Manager, School Programs
AUG 11: Rebecca Shulman Herz, Manager, Learning Through Art
Line, Space, and Performance
TUES JUN 27 AND JUL 25 @ 11 AM
Join Christina Yang, Senior Manager of Public Programs, for a walkthrough including Zaha Hadid and Jackson Pollock’s work, exploring line as gesture, surface as space, and the body figured in time.
MEMBER EVENTS
Exclusive events for members. Call (212) 423-3535 Mon–Fri, 10 am–6 pm or e-mail membership@guggenheim.org.
General Members
Members’ Party and Private Viewing
FRI JUN 9, 9 PM–MIDNIGHT
Guggenheim members are invited to view our two summer exhibitions: Zaha Hadid and No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper at this private evening reception. With live jazz music and refreshments, this members’ party will get you swinging your way into the weekend.
Family Fun for Family Members: Guided Gallery Tours
SAT JUN 24, 10–11 AM and 2–3 PM
Please join us on an interactive, inquiry-based guided gallery experience; adults and children explore our summer exhibitions with Sackler educators and engage in conversation and art making activities—all in our galleries!
Exclusive event for Family Members. To register please call (212) 423-3637. Space is limited so don’t delay!
YCC
Exclusive events for members of the Young Collectors Council. For more information, call Abigail Lawler at (212) 423-3534 or email ycc@guggenheim.org.
Curatorial Tour and Conservation Discussion: No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper
CALL FOR DATE
Join YCC members for a private, after-hours tour at the Guggenheim of this retrospective of Pollock's works on paper, led by its organizer, Guggenheim Curator Susan Davidson. The exhibition, which appeared last year at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, features approximately sixty works from international collections, documenting the development of Pollock's oeuvre from his figurative, strongly European-influenced beginnings to the abstract compositions of his later years. In addition, Gillian McMillan, Senior Conservator, Collections, speaks to the group about her treatment of one of the works in the show which the Guggenheim recently acquired by bequest.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Unless otherwise noted, tickets for Public Programs are $10 ($7 for members, students, and seniors). For more information, call the Box Office at (212) 423-3587.
Panel Discussion
Contemporary Artists on Pollock
TUE JUN 13 @ 6:30 PM
Many artists working today explore the legacy of Jackson Pollock and arrive at a fusion of postmodernism and Abstract Expressionism. Panelists discuss the ways in which they exploit the fluidity of paint, the explosiveness of the drawn line, the effects of scale, and the experience of “alloverness.”
Participants: Ingrid Calame, Giles Lyon, David Reed, and Matthew Ritchie.
Moderator: Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, New York University, and co-curator of Jackson Pollock (Museum of Modern Art, 1998).
Talks
Jonathan Santlofer: The Killing Art
WED JUN 28 @ 6:30 PM
Award-winning artist and celebrated author Jonathan Santlofer presents a visual reading of his mystery novel The Killing Art. Set amidst the glittering New York art world, Santlofer weaves a tale of suspense featuring original artwork as clues. The author discusses his research, the development of characters, and how fiction creates insight into unknowable facets of the past.
Reception and book-signing follows, graciously hosted by Jennifer Stockman.
Michael Leja: Pollock Near and Far
WED JUL 19 @ 6:30 PM
Like his paintings on canvas, Pollock’s works on paper contain conflicting elements: order and disorder, figuration and abstraction, unity and heterogeneity, materiality and immateriality, literal presence and allusiveness. This lecture closely examines a selection of works from different moments in his career, tracking contradictions as they evolve and comparing critical writings from the 1950s to the present.
The exhibition remains open until the lecture begins.
Michael Leja is Professor in the History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
“Young Man from Wyoming”: Conversation with E. Annie Proulx and Brigid Hughes
TUE SEPT 12 @ 6:30 PM
Advance publicity for Pollock’s first solo show, at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery in 1943, headlined a “Young Man from Wyoming.” Brigid Hughes, founder and editor of the literary magazine A Public Space, and E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” consider the West as regional and cultural space.
Works & Process
Save the Date!
Jazz for Jackson
SUN and MON, Sept 24 and 25 @ 8 PM
Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock owned a collection of over one hundred jazz records. As part of the Fall 2006 Works & Process season, downtown jazz legend and experimental composer John Zorn leads an explosive cast of musicians in performances inspired by Pollock’s work. Come to the Guggenheim to see and hear syncopated rhythms, attenuated line, and color-bound riffs.
Major support for Works & Process is provided by Brown Foundation, Inc., Christian Humann Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., the Florence Gould Foundation, and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.
Tickets for this event are not yet on sale, for more information call (212) 423-3587.
FOR FAMILIES
Spring Family Day
SUN JUN 11, 1–4 PM
In conjunction with the exhibitions Zaha Hadid; No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper; and A Year with Children 2006: Selected Works from Learning Through Art, please join us for a fun-filled afternoon dedicated to families. Create your own art, participate in drama and art activities in the galleries, and enjoy live music.
This program is designed for families with children ages 5—12 $15 per family ($10 for members, free for Family Members.) No reservation necessary.
Summer Sundays
10:30 AM–NOON
Join interactive, family-oriented tours highlighting the Guggenheim’s special summer exhibitions—Zaha Hadid and No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper—as well as selections from the permanent collection. Tours focus on a different theme each Sunday and include conversation, drawing, and readings from related children’s books.
JUL 2: 2D to 3D
JUL 9: Places and Spaces
JUL 16: Cool Design, Cool Building
JUL 23 AND 30: Art Scavenger Hunt
For children ages 5—10 and their adult friends and family. $15 per family ($10 for members, free for Family Members). Limited to 20 people. To register, call (212) 423-3587.
ABOVE: Jackson Pollock, Untitled (Green Silver), ca. 1949. Enamel and aluminum paint on paper mounted on canvas. 22 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift of Sylvia and Joseph Slifka. 2004.63. Photo: David Heald, ©2006 Pollock-Karsner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
