Maria Gough
The Para-Architectural Imagination of Gustav Klutsis
Tuesday, October 30, 6:30pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Avenue at 89th Street, New York
www.guggenheim.org/publicprograms
Guggenheim Museum in 1981 OctoberNew German Critique Modernism/modernity RES: Anthropology and AestheticsParkett ArtforumCahiers du Musée national d’art moderne The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in RevolutionThe Hilla Rebay Lecture brings distinguished scholars to the Guggenheim Museum to examine significant issues in the theory, criticism, and history of art. Marking its 25th anniversary, the lecture honors Hilla Rebay, the first director and curator of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which was founded in 1939 and renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952. This annual program is made possible through the generosity of The Hilla von Rebay Foundation.
A private reception and viewing of the exhibition Picasso Black and White immediately follows the lecture.
Free to the public. No advance ticket registration.
For more information visit guggenheim.org/publicprograms.
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The Hilla von Rebay Foundation Archive contains 101 cubic feet of historic records created or collected by Hilla Rebay and/or The Hilla von Rebay Foundation. The collection reflects Rebay’s work as an artist as well as her tenure as the first director and curator of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Records include original artwork, architectural plans, photographs, art portfolios, writings, and more. For more information on the Hilla von Rebay Foundation Archive and other archival collections visit guggenheim.org/archives.
In conjunction with the Hilla Rebay Lecture, this fall the museum will release The Guggenheim Reader Series: Russia, the inaugural title in a new e-book series that brings together scholarly essays on prominent themes. The Guggenheim has a rich history of exploring Russian art and the avant-garde in particular; this anthology collects the most insightful and influential essays from exhibition catalogues such as The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932 (1992) and Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections (2005), as well as focused monographic studies of Russian masters like Vasily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich. For more information visit guggenheim.org/books.
