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...party was one of many in a hectic season of feminist nightlife in Manhattan. In April came Show, a living work of art by Vanessa Beecroft designed to humanize media images of female beauty and thus somehow invest women with power. The invitees gathered in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to view 15 bikini-clad models staring into space atop their high heels. But the glitziest affair in recent months was a reading of The Vagina Monologues, a performance piece about female private parts by Eve Ensler that attracted Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder and Calista Flockhart, among...
...GUGGENHEIM BILBAO, 1997 Architect: Frank Gehry Shrouded in titanium, this massive gallery gleams like a voluptuous Spanish spaceship that has landed in an ancient town. Spectacular outside, gracious within...
...each man could grow his own food on an acre block reserved for him since birth--and he was easy to dismiss as hopelessly Utopian. But fortunately for history, he often got to lay his dreams down in concrete and clay tile, giving us Fallingwater, New York City's Guggenheim Museum, the S.C. Johnson Wax building, the Robie House, Unity Temple and more than 450 other buildings, each a lesson in poetic functionalism. And the buildings not only fulfilled his ideals, they also worked. Alas, his creations were decorative and quixotic in an era that preferred the planar...
Earlier this month, four Harvard professors were honored with John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, awards dedicated to the promotion of scholarship in both the arts and sciences through funded research...
According to the Guggenheim foundation, awards are presented on the basis of exceptionally distinguished scholarly achievement and future promise. However, past fellows lay a large role in choosing candidates for the grants, Kardon said...