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Meanwhile, The Newtons have been preparing their Cambridge Exam. They have studied the Object Pronouns.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.
The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim.
In 1959, the museum moved from rented space to its current building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The cylindrical building, wider at the top than at the bottom, was conceived as a temple of the spirit.
Its unique ramp gallery extends up from ground level in a long, continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building to end just under the ceiling skylight. The building underwent extensive expansion and renovations in 1992 when an adjoining tower was built, and from 2005 to 2008.
The museum's collection has grown over eight decades and is founded upon several important private collections, beginning with that of Solomon R. Guggenheim. The collection is shared with sister museums in Bilbao, Basque Country and elsewhere.
In 2013, nearly 1.2 million people visited the museum, and it hosted the most popular exhibition in New York City.
More information: The Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim, a member of a wealthy mining family, had been collecting works of the old masters since the 1890s. In 1926, he met artist Hilla von Rebay, who introduced him to European avant-garde art, in particular abstract art that she felt had a spiritual and utopian aspect (non-objective art).
Guggenheim completely changed his collecting strategy, turning to the work of Wassily Kandinsky, among others. He began to display his collection to the public at his apartment in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. As the collection grew, he established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, in 1937, to foster the appreciation of modern art.
On August 14, 1990, the museum and its interior were separately designated as New York City Landmarks. The museum was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 2005, and was registered as a National Historic Landmark on October 6, 2008.
In July 2019, the Guggenheim was among eight properties by Wright placed on the World Heritage List under the title The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
More information: Classic New York History
All day long I add up columns of figures
and make everything balanced.
I come home. I sit down.
I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.
Solomon R. Guggenheim
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