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...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...
...would have pleased Guggenheim, who built his nonobjective collection around Kandinsky. It would have brought a wry smile to Wright, who knew that crowds would first flock into the Guggenheim Museum only to see what Wright had wrought but would eventually come to see a show perfectly suited to its chambered-nautilus setting. And surely it would have delighted Kandinsky, who once wrote: "I would like above all an exhibit as comprehensive as possible; quantity aids the discovery of inner meanings...
Fancies & Nightmares. In the early '30s, Art Collector Guggenheim, who had already shifted his allegiance from the old masters to modern art, was prodded by his great and good friend, the Baroness Hilla Rebay, into discovering Kandinsky. With the Baroness saying "That one and that one, and that one . . ." Guggenheim bought up more than 100 of Kandinsky's works, becoming the first great U.S. champion of the artist and his disciples...
...writers, teachers and engineers. "He was in a state of constant worry, and counted us every minute like chickens," complained Nekrasov. "The most terrible thing for him was if you said. 'I don't want to go to the National Gallery; I want to go to the Guggenheim, or just walk down Broadway.' It was this 'just walking' that he feared in particular for some reason...
Vachel Lindsay: He had "the innocent, desperate eccentricity of the artist in a world which had no room for, no patience with, artists . . . Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim ... it is hard to remember how precariously hand to mouth his existence...