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Prominent Haitian artist and former Guggenheim fellow Marilene Phipps opened an exhibit of her artwork last Friday at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, drawing in a crowd of approximately 40 people...
...delighted to see your piece on the motorcycle exhibit. My son owns a motorcycle dealership, and I visit him and his shop frequently, for his machines make me feel good. I am always overwhelmed by their design; they are true works of art. Thank you and the Guggenheim Museum for validating my taste. ELEANOR K. PRAGER Palo Alto, Calif...
...fact that the great spiral of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is at present full of motorcycles has annoyed some critics. Not this one. If the Museum of Modern Art can hang a helicopter from its ceiling, why can't the Guggenheim show bikes? "The Art of the Motorcycle" may seem an opportunistic title until you actually see the things. Design is design, a fit subject for museum consideration, and in any case I'd rather look at a rampful of glittering dream machines than any number of tasteful Scandinavian vases or floppy fiber art. My only...
...proto-form of the motorcycle was simply a velocipede with a steam-engine jammed in it, made in France in 1868. The first true serial production bike, with which the Guggenheim show begins, was made in 1894 by the German firm of Hildebrand & Wolfmuller; its enormous engine--1,489 cc, the biggest that would be fitted to a production machine until the 1980s--chugged it along at 30 m.p.h. Motorcycle technology advanced so quickly under the spell of the fin-de-siecle obsession with heroic speed that only 13 years later, in 1907, the future aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss...
...public presentation of Brandon was the latest development in the Brandon Web site project commissioned by the Guggenheim museum...