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Byline: Deborah Solomon Orphism has always seemed less like an art movement than a spinoff of cubism that flourished and fizzled in short order. Founded in Paris with the supposed [...]

Byline: Vanessa Friedman What happened when Pieter Mulier brought the Alaïa show to the Guggenheim. It takes a lot to distract from Rihanna. Especially when she enters a room wearing [...]

Byline: Javier C. Hernández Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie's 'Intelligence,' directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush Women. In a theater at the [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A small, exquisite exhibition at the Guggenheim shows how the City of Light transformed the 19-year-old Spanish artist. One painting says it all. Some celebrations are fleeting, [...]

Byline: Blake Gopnik It's no longer enough to like our favorite artists' works. By putting on Hopper's fedora, Picasso's striped shirt, Warhol's wig or Kahlo's colorful couture, we want to [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks - some fresh from the studio - and celebrated spiral. At first the prospect [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter When lockdown lifted last spring, some of our big New York City museums were able to slide major waiting-in-the-wings exhibitions into place. The Guggenheim wasn't so lucky. [...]

Byline: Jason Farago This much we knew by Tuesday night: at the electoral level, at least, the divide between America's cities and its hinterlands seems deeper than ever, with urban [...]

Byline: Graham Bowley Ephemeral works of art, like Maurizio Cattelan's creation out of fruit, can often pose conservation challenges for the museums that have them. Few art works sold in [...]

Byline: Elizabeth A. Harris Although the Guggenheim's 'Countryside' show was shuttered by the pandemic, its crop of cherry tomatoes is still growing, and feeding New Yorkers. The halls of the [...]

Byline: A.O. Scott How the rediscovery of a Swedish abstract painter changed the course of art history. The career-spanning exhibition of the work of Hilma af Klint that toured the [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter His startling conceptual pieces (in one case using live creatures) commented on humanity, challenged conventional notions of art and sought to erase the artist's ego. Huang Yong [...]

Byline: Graham Bowley Vladimir O. Potanin, a Russian billionaire who made his fortune in banking and natural resources, has been a donor and board member of the Guggenheim Museum since [...]

Byline: Siddhartha Mitter A curator's time capsule of a violent moment and its repercussions brings fresh insights - and reveals stresses with a museum. On a recent day in the [...]

Byline: Iliana Magra From iron works in Burkina Faso that date back nearly three millenniums, to the fortified and planned city of Jaipur in India, to the Guggenheim Museum in [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH The work of the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo operates at the intersection of art, global history and personal diary, that is, his own life as a gay [...]

Byline: ANNALISA QUINN Rosemarie Koczy inscribed thousands of pen and ink drawings of Holocaust victims with the same phrase: 'I weave you a shroud.' The distinctive works of the artist, [...]

Byline: THE EDITORIAL BOARD It was no surprise that some people were upset by a few works involving animals in the Guggenheim Museum's new show, 'Art and China After 1989.' [...]

Byline: JASON FARAGO Museums of modern and contemporary art like to talk a big game about globalism, and their big-tent discourse challenges the old assumption that artists can be naturally [...]

Byline: HOLLAND COTTER To be honest, I wonder what a lot of people see in abstract painting. I love it, the idea of it and the experience of it, because [...]

Byline: RANDY KENNEDY Unlike professional athletes, actors (Gene Hackman) and some novelists (Philip Roth), visual artists don't usually retire. Or if they do, they don't announce it. But in 2011, [...]

Byline: RANDY KENNEDY In the art of the 20th century, comedy was tough to come by. Marcel Duchamp and his urinal were the original stand-up act, and Magritte was good [...]

Byline: HOLLAND COTTER Many Western abstract painters in the early 20th century - Albers, Kandinsky, Mondrian - were deeply influenced by Asian art and philosophy, though no one dismissed them [...]

Byline: CAROL VOGEL Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- The site of the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is desolate these days: just arid land and concrete pilings jutting out over [...]

Byline: ARTHUR LUBOW When Sandhini Poddar first saw the paintings of V.S. Gaitonde, their silence spoke loudly. Displayed in a group show in 1997 at the National Gallery of Modern [...]

Byline: ARIEL KAMINER and SEAN O'DRISCOLL ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The strike had entered its second day when construction workers at Labor Camp 42 got word that their [...]

Byline: DAVID BELCHER LONDON -- When Frank Lloyd Wright was asked in 1959 if his unusual, curved design for the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York might overpower [...]

Byline: ANDREW ROSS Across a narrow sea channel from Abu Dhabi's sleek towers, construction on Saadiyat Island is proceeding at a pace that's extreme even by the standards of this [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Was any avowedly modern art movement as obnoxious and noisily contradictory as Italian Futurism? By turn aesthetically revolutionary and politically reactionary, farsighted and visually challenged, not to [...]

Byline: RACHEL DONADIO PARIS -- As a capstone to its upcoming show, 'Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe,' the Guggenheim Museum has managed a rare coup: Securing the first-ever loan [...]