Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Hear actor Nefertiti Matos Olivares describe the entrance vestibule, opening into the expansive atrium at the heart of the museum.

Hear actor Marilee Talkington describe the museum’s setting, and the descent to its main entrance.

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Untitled (Black & Black)" is a work by Pier Paolo Calzolari from 1986. The full installation measures nearly 8 feet high by 8 feet wide and extends 2 feet from the gallery wall. The dimensions of each component are varied within that frame. The piece is composed of two sections, one hanging vertically on the wall about two feet abo...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: This work by Danh Vo from 2013 is titled "Lot 20. Two Kennedy Administration Cabinet Room Chairs." The sculptural work hangs vertically on the gallery wall and initially appears like a single enormous piece of leather, extending around 6 feet long and about 3 feet at its widest point. It is draped in folds like a curtain. The surfac...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Shinique Smith uses reclaimed clothing, ribbon, and yarn in this installation from 2021. It stretches vertically from ceiling to floor, just over 10 feet tall, and varying in width between a few inches along most of the piece to a section in the middle about 2 feet in diameter. There is an element of storytelling in the title, "She...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Rashid Johnson’s "Cosmic Slop “Bitter,”" from 2015, features a solid black surface just over 6 feet high by 8 feet wide, marked by deep cuts and grooves. If we were to touch this surface, our fingers would dance and skip over cracks and crevices, like peaks and valleys in a barren post-volcanic landscape, newly created after a lava...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: This work by Mario Merz is titled "ACCELERATION = DREAM, FIBONACCI NUMBERS IN NEON AND MOTORCYCLE PHANTOM." Made in 1972 and refabricated in 1989, the work features a motorcycle installed high up on the gallery wall with neon numbers trailing behind it. The motorcycle is a red Honda Dominator. It is installed sideways, or at a right...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Artist Gilberto Zorio lifts our gaze with his suspended sculpture "Macchia II," from 1968. As we approach, the installation feels hidden in the room, hanging in a corner from the ceiling and extending about 15 feet in diameter above us. The materials, created from terracotta-colored plasticized PVC and beige-gray rope, suspend light...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: This installation from 1991 by Mike Kelley is titled "Riddle of the Sphinx" and composed of yarn, stainless-steel bowls, and an offset photolithograph. A knitted yarn blanket is placed on the floor like a huge rug. It is shaped in a rectangle roughly 26 feet long by 13 feet wide. The shorter edge of the blanket is placed a few inche...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript This work by Mark Bradford from 2001 is titled "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." Mixed media on canvas, the work is 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide. The canvas surface is covered with small rectangles of tissue-like paper, each about 3 by 4 inches. The papers are endpapers, translucent tissue papers used in the hair salon. Each rectangular endpaper has darke...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Anthony Akinbola’s "Jubilee," created in 2021, greets viewers with a variety of pastels in pale and bright yellows, pinks, and orangy-tans, like lemon and orange sherbet. Measuring 8 feet wide by 9 feet high and 3 inches deep, its size, composition, and structure give it the feel of a large-scale painting, despite being created from...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Senga Nengudi blurs the lines between sculpture and installation in her 1970 work "Water Composition I," re-created in 2019. This liminality is perhaps echoed in its location, hung about 5 feet high against the gallery wall with portions of the sculpture hanging onto the floor and extending out around 6 feet. It’s a form that’s orga...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: Mona Hatoum has set the table for us with this artwork, "Deep Throat," from 1996. The installation includes a table, roughly 3 feet square and just over 4 feet high, covered in a tablecloth with a single place setting and wooden chair in front of it. The chair faces away from us, pulled out slightly from the table, as if we’ve been...

Access a slow-looking exercise of these works. Transcript Narrator: These two artworks by David Hammons are part of his "Body Prints" series from 1975. Both share the same name, "Untitled," and same dimensions, around 2 feet wide by 2 1/2 feet tall. They are vertically oriented and aesthetically similar, sharing the same colors and application of pigments. Hammons uses his own body to create these...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Strange Fruit (Pair 1)" is a site-specific installation created in 2015 by Kevin Beasley. A variety of everyday objects are bound together, hanging vertically from the ceiling. The main body of the sculpture is about 6 feet long, elevated about 3 feet off the floor. It hangs about 12 feet below the ceiling, with a diameter up to 2...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: "Oh! Les Beaux Jours" is a work by Maro Michalakakos from 2012. The installation is composed of two huge mounds that rise to a height of over 12 feet, created entirely from pinkish-purple polyester fiber. Upon close inspection, the fiber resembles wispy felt pieces, like collected dryer lint or pulled cotton balls, material with an...

Access a slow-looking exercise of this work. Transcript Narrator: This chromogenic print from 2012 by artist Xaviera Simmons is titled "Index Two Composition Three." The vertically oriented photograph is just over 4 feet high by 3 feet wide and centers an accumulation of layered objects. The items are attached together haphazardly with clothespins and other materials and cover a vertical cylindric...

La curatrice Naomi Beckwith parla della mostra e dei temi proposti. Transcript Naomi Beckwith: Sono Naomi Beckwith, vicedirettrice e capo-curatrice di Jennifer e David Stockman qui al Museo e Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim. Sono onorata di presentare "Passando attraverso: materiale e movimento nella Collezione Guggenheim," una mostra che, pur proponendo solo una piccola parte del nostro patrimon...

La curadora Naomi Beckwith comparte sus conocimientos sobre la exposición y sus temáticas. Transcript Naomi Beckwith: Me llamo Naomi Beckwith, soy la directora adjunta y curadora en jefe Jennifer and David Stockman del Museo y Fundación Solomon R. Guggenheim. Estoy encantada de presentar "A través de: material y movimiento en la colección del Guggenheim," una muestra en la que se exhibe una pequeñ...

Curator Naomi Beckwith shares insights on the exhibition and its themes. Transcript Naomi Beckwith: I am Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator here at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation. I’m thrilled to present "By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection," a show that features a small fraction of our holdings but which demonstra...

To ignite curiosity around the exhibition’s theme of semi-visibility, the Guggenheim partnered with the team at Social Audio Description Collective to bring multiple insights, perspectives, and open-ended questions to the verbal descriptions in Going Dark. Typically created for listeners who are blind or have low-vision, verbal descriptions provide access to visual content through close observatio...

Betrachten wir dieses Werk in allen Einzelheiten. Transcript Narrator: "Kleine Freuden" ist ein Ölgemälde auf Leinwand von etwa 1,20 m Höhe und 1,20 m Breite, randvoll angefüllt mit Farben, Strukturen, Linien und Symbolik. Auf einem Berg, der markant in der Bildmitte platziert ist, sehen wir eine geometrische, mehrfarbige Stadt. Jenseits und oberhalb davon: ein weiterer Berg, auf dem eine Stadt mi...

Accéder à un exercice d’observation lente de cette œuvre. Transcript Narrator: "Petits Plaisirs" est une peinture à l’huile sur toile d’environ un mètre dix par un mètre vingt regorgeant de couleurs, de textures, de lignes et d’images. En son centre trône une montagne surmontée d’une ville géométrique et colorée. En arrière-plan et au-dessus, une autre montagne est surmontée d’une ville aux murs b...

Esamina l'opera con il metodo dell'osservazione lenta. Transcript Narrator: "Piccoli piaceri" è un dipinto a olio su tela, di circa un metro e venti di larghezza per un metro e venti di altezza, ricco di colori, trame, linee e motivi fantastici. Al centro campeggia una montagna sulla cui cima si trova una città di forma geometrica e multicolore. Oltre e al di sopra di essa un'altra montagna è sorm...

Obtenga acceso a un ejercicio de observación detenida de esta obra. Transcript Narrator: "Pequeños placeres" es un óleo sobre lienzo de aproximadamente 4 pies de ancho por 4 pies de alto (120 cm de ancho × 120 cm de alto), rebosante de colores, texturas, líneas e imágenes. Una montaña coronada por una ciudad geométrica multicolor ocupa un lugar destacado en el centro. Más allá y por encima de ella...