Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: WangShui’s enormous work on aluminum, "Ambiguous Congress," is from 2023. It features three large sheets of aluminum placed side-by-side, making one large triptych. Each panel is about 4 feet by 8 feet. The central panel is oriented vertically, while the two panels o...

Poet Jay Deshpande recites this poem inspired by verbal description techniques. "Changeover" is written after the museum’s one-of-a-kind “changeover” process when visitors can witness a new exhibition take shape while the previous one is deinstalled. Access a digital copy of "Changeover" in its original format on guggenheim.org/poetry Transcript Jay Deshpande: Hi, I’m Jay Deshpande, and I’m readin...

Obtenga acceso a un ejercicio de observación detenida de esta obra.  Transcript Narrator: Este óleo sobre cartón de Pablo Picasso se titula El catorce de julio. Es una obra de carácter paisajístico que pintó en el verano de 1901 y mide aproximadamente un pie y medio de alto por dos de ancho (45,72 x 60,96 cm).. La escena muestra una bulliciosa celebración del Día de la Bastilla, la fiesta nacional...

聆听有关这件作品的详解。  Transcript Narrator: 西班牙艺术家巴勃罗·毕加索（Pablo Picasso）的这幅布面油画创作于1900年11月左右，描绘了一座名为“加莱特磨坊”（le Moulin de la Galette）的繁华巴黎舞厅。这幅画作高约三英尺，宽四英尺，令观众仿佛身临其境，在舞厅中彻夜作乐。人们在拥挤的空间里跳舞、喝酒、济济一堂。  时髦的顾客身穿全套西装，头戴黑色丝绸礼帽，外穿长外套。有的人斜戴着饰有花朵或闪亮别针的爱德华时代...

聆听有关这件作品的详解。  Transcript Narrator: 巴勃罗·毕加索将这幅硬纸板油画题为《七月十四日》（The Fourteenth of July）。这幅风景画作于1901年夏季，高约一英尺半，宽约两英尺。描绘了法国国庆节巴士底日的热闹庆祝活动。在画作的红色、白色和蓝色中，穿插着散布于节日人群中的其他明亮色彩。 在左下角，松散的笔触描绘了一些人物，他们似乎站着或坐着，看着路过的人群或游行。距离我们最近的面孔只是简单地用数抹桃色或...

Accès à un exercice « observation lente » lié à cette œuvre.  Transcript Narrator: Cette peinture à huile sur carton de Pablo Picasso est intitulée Le quatorze juillet. Peinte pendant l’été 1901, cette œuvre en format paysage mesure une cinquantaine de centimètres de hauteur et un peu plus de soixante de large. Elle dépeint une célébration animée de la prise de la Bastille, la fête nationale franç...

Hören Sie unserer Kuratorin Megan Fontanella bei der Beschreibung der Einzelheiten dieses Gemäldes zu.  Transcript Narrator: Dieses sehr lebhafte Bild, Der vierzehnte Juli von 1901, hält die Feiern zum französischen Nationalfeiertag fest, an dem der Sturm auf die Bastille während der französischen Revolution von 1789 begangen wird.  In Picassos Gemälde drückt sich eine Menschenmenge nach vorn und...

Betrachten wir dieses Werk in allen Einzelheiten. Transcript Narrator: Der Titel dieses Gemäldes (Öl auf Karton) von Pablo Picasso ist Der vierzehnte Juli. Dieses querformatige Werk, gemalt im Sommer 1901, ist ca. 48 cm hoch und 63 cm breit. Die Szene zeigt eine lebhafte Feier zum Tag der Bastille, dem französischen Nationalfeiertag. Rote, weiße und blaue Farben auf der gesamten Oberfläche des Gem...

Écoutez la curatrice Megan Fontanella dévoiler les détails de ce tableau. Transcript Narrator: Cette peinture animée intitulée Le quatorze juillet, qui date de 1901, illustre la fête nationale française en commémoration de la prise de la Bastille pendant la Révolution de 1789. Le tableau de Picasso montre une foule étourdissante qui avance rapidement. Les touches de couleurs floues nous ​​empêchen...

Accedi a un esercizio di osservazione lenta di questa opera d’arte.  Transcript Narrator: Questo dipinto a olio su cartone di Pablo Picasso è intitolato Il quattordici luglio. Eseguito nell’estate del 1901, il quadro dalla composizione orizzontale ha un’altezza di 48 cm e una larghezza di 63 cm circa. La scena rappresenta una vivace celebrazione del giorno della Presa della Bastiglia, festa nazion...

Ascoltiamo la curatrice Megan Fontanella mentre ci rivela i particolari di questo dipinto. Transcript Narrator: Questo vivace dipinto Il quattordici luglio del 1901 raffigura la festa nazionale francese che commemora la presa della Bastiglia durante le sommosse popolari del 1789.  Qui nel quadro di Picasso, una folla confusa, realizzata in gran parte con pennellate grossolane di colore, avanza acc...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: "Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation," from 2016, is an interactive installation in which an upright stationary exercise bicycle has been repurposed into a workstation complete with headphones and a Mac mini. Three 24-inch LCD video monitors replace the bic...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: This work by Kerry James Marshall is titled "Black Painting." It was made from 2003 to 2006. The horizontally oriented acrylic-on-fiberglass painting is 6 feet tall by 9 feet wide and sits in a black beveled frame. It depicts a darkened bedroom, within which everythi...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Carrie Mae Weams’s installation "Repeating the Obvious" is comprised of thirty-nine square framed inkjet prints of various sizes arranged along two walls. The prints feature an identical image in black and white that appears cast in an ethereal blue glow. At the cent...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Glenn Ligon’s "Hands (Diptych)," from 1997, is made of two side-by-side panels of unstretched canvas. Each is 11 1/2 feet wide by 6 1/2 feet tall. On the left is a silkscreened image of a cropped photograph from the 1995 Million Man March in black and white. It featu...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Lorna Simpson’s "Vertigo," from 2021, is a panoramic 12-foot-wide silkscreen print augmented with inks applied by brush and other means after printing. A contiguous zone of deep blue spans and dominates three-fourths of the work. Rectangular and printed on rigid fibe...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Chris Ofili’s charcoal, oil, and acrylic painting "Blue Bathers," from 2014, depicts in indigos and purples a darkly luminous night scene outdoors. It re-creates the uncertainty of what you see and observe in the dark, making it just possible to discern two bathers b...

Further explore the exhibition’s themes of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: The 1978 Parliament song “Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop” contains references to the hoops that Black people were compelled to jump through in white US society. This narrative is brought to life in the playful-sounding song recorded in the Black music funk style....

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Made of polyester clear-coated in resin, a sumptuous and silky gathering of patterned fabric drapes across the gallery wall, made of house dresses and kaftans loosely hanging yet frozen in place around invisible bodies. The fabric is pulled up into five hoods, shaped...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Joiri Minaya’s "Irreducible Convergence," from 2020, is an inkjet print, 5 feet tall by 3 1/4 wide. It shows a bare, light brown photorealistic arm of an otherwise camouflaged figure, who is reaching across herself to clutch the outer fold of her sarong and pull it o...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: At a distance, Tiona McClodden’s 2023 piece "Very, Very Slightly – VVS.1" looks like a matte-black painting with a few faint markings and without a frame. Two and a half feet wide by three and a quarter tall, it is actually hand-cut dyed leather with shoe polish and...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: This work by David Hammons from 1969 is titled "Close Your Eyes and See Black." The vertically oriented work is 3 feet tall by 2 feet wide. This work features an organic shape in dark pigment printed onto a vivid gold-plated paperboard background. The dark shape fill...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: This inkjet color photographic print by artist Farah Al Qasimi from 2019 is edition four of five. Around 2 1/2 feet wide and just over 3 feet tall, it is titled "Woman in Leopard Print." In a masterpiece of visual excess, clashing colors, and patterns, a woman wearin...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: Upon first glance, it is difficult to decipher a figure, much less a facial expression, in "Untitled 4 (Facial Expression)" by John Edmonds. This solarized gelatin silver print, dated to 2018, is a portrait measuring 12 inches wide by 15 inches tall. It appears deep...

Further explore the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility through a slow-looking exercise related to this work. Transcript Narrator: "Total Transparency Filter (Portrait of N)," from 2017, is a photograph by Stephanie Syjuco measuring 40 by 30 inches that transforms the standard pose of a photo-studio portrait into something that feels mysterious. Though it is a color photo, nearly everything in t...