At the Guggenheim Museum: Painter Alex Katz and choreographer Paul Taylor collaborated on 16 works between 1960 and 2014. Oct 26,

Two World-Class Institutions Celebrate the Collaboration, Spanning 64 Years, Between Two American Icons: Painter Alex Katz and Choreographer Paul Taylor

Painter Alex Katz and choreographer Paul Taylor collaborated on 16 works between 1960 and 2014. In conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum’s retrospective Alex Katz: Gathering, Works & Process will present two performances of Polaris performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in the Guggenheim rotunda on Wednesday, October 26, at 6:30 and 8 p.m. Works & Process will offer a special free program at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division on Thursday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m. The evening’s conversation will be moderated by Michael Novak and will feature distinguished Taylor alumnae and educators Carolyn Adams and Susan McGuire, on whom some Taylor/Katz works were created, and artist, critic, and curator Robert Storr. The Guggenheim retrospective precedes the highly-anticipated Paul Taylor Dance Company 2022 New York Season at Lincoln Center, November 1-13. Billed as "Taylor: A New Era," the Season will include four of the 16 works created by Paul Taylor -- Polaris, Scudorama, Sunset and Diggity. Individual works will be performed on November 1, 3, 5, 11 and 13, and a special one-night-only program on Wednesday November 9 at 7 pm, "Taylor X Katz," will feature all four works. WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Paul Taylor Dance Company announce a performance of Polaris, a 1976 collaboration choreographed by Paul Taylor with set and costume designs by Alex Katz. Selected by Paul Taylor Dance Company Artistic Director Michael Novak, Polaris will offer audiences a unique and unprecedented opportunity to see the performance—normally shown on a proscenium stage—up close and from 360 degrees.  Polaris Wednesday, October 26, 6:30 pm & 8 pm Rotunda 1071 Fifth Avenue Tickets: https://www.guggenheim.org/event/paul-taylor-dance-company-polaris-by-alex-katz-and-paul-taylor Ramp Standing $35, Choose-What-You-Pay Rotunda Floor Seats $70 – SOLD OUT WORKS & PROCESS AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, JEROME ROBBINS DANCE DIVISION A distinguished panel will discuss the lasting resonance of the pair’s collaborations. Select archival video highlights from their 16 collaborations will be screened, and the panel will offer insights into the process, design, and impact of interdisciplinary collaborations.  Alex Katz and Paul Taylor: Four Decades of Collaborations, hosted by Michael Novak, with Carolyn Adams, Susan McGuire, and Robert Storr Thursday, October 27, 7 pm Bruno Walter Auditorium 40 Lincoln Center Plaza (entrance at 111 Amsterdam between 64th and 65th) Free, RSVP at: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/10/27/works-process-presents-alex-katz-and-paul-taylor-four-decades?nref=635581 PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY 2022 SEASON The Paul Taylor Dance Company will return to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its highly-anticipated New York City Season from November 1 to November 13, 2022. Billed as “Taylor: A New Era,” the Season will include World Premieres by newly-appointed Resident Choreographer Lauren Lovette and Taylor Commissioned Choreographer Amy Hall Garner, and a one-night-only event showcasing the collaboration between Paul Taylor and painter Alex Katz. Tickets for all performances from November 2 through November 13 start at just $15 and are on sale now. Every seat in the house on Opening Night, November 1, is just $10; tickets for Opening Night go on sale Monday, October 17 at noon. Tickets can be purchased online at www.boxoffice.dance, at the Koch Box Office at 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue, or by calling 212.496.0600. #guggenheimmuseumdance#fineartmagazine#fineartdance

Guggenheim presents Glimmerglass Festival New Works Sunday, May 22, 2022

Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents  Glimmerglass Festival New Works Sunday, May 22, 2022 “forward thinking” “an exceptional opportunity to understand something of the creative process” - The New York Times

(NEW YORK, NY – May 10, 2022) Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, is proud to present the Glimmerglass Festival New Works, featuring excerpts of new works by several creators on May 22, 2022 at 7:30 pm. Taking place in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all programs invite audiences to embrace artistic process and uniquely blend performance highlights with insightful artists’ discussions. Francesca Zambello, the artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival, introduces creators and excerpts from the upcoming 2022 festival, which includes a record number of new works: Composer Damien Geter and librettist Lila Palmer’s Holy Ground begins in a dystopian version of the present, in which the Messiah has not yet appeared. Can a rookie angel persuade a modern girl to take on the task, staving off the apocalypse? Tenor Overboard is a pastiche of lesser-known Rossini showpieces, with a hilarious new book by playwright Ken Ludwig. Composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Jerre Dye’s Taking Up Serpents explores faith, family, and destiny through the eyes of the estranged daughter of a fire-and-brimstone preacher who is dangerously bitten by one of his own snakes. And, lastly, The Jungle Book, by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Kelley Rourke, reframes Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale as a refugee story, with a score that blends Western and Indian classical traditions. Throughout the pandemic, Works & Process continued to provide opportunities for artists and pioneered the bubble residency to support their work safely. The spring 2022 season will feature the official world premieres of works created by New York artists – many representing historically marginalized performing art cultures – and incubated during the peak of the pandemic inside 2020-21 Works & Process bubble residencies. Alongside the commissions, Works & Process will present performance excerpts of and artists discussions about new works prior to their premieres at leading organizations including BAAD!, BAM, Boston Ballet, Federal Hall, Glimmerglass Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet.  WORKS & PROCESS TICKETS  $35, $15 partial view. Pay-what-you-wish tickets are available for purchase online only at worksandprocess.org. House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org. House seats may be released to the public before performances. Works & Process has received support from the U.S. Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators Grant and Paycheck Protection Program and NYC Employee Retention Grant Program. Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass Festival is a professional non-profit summer opera company dedicated to producing new productions each season. Francesca Zambello was appointed Artistic & General Director in September 2010, and with the 2011 season, Glimmerglass Opera became The Glimmerglass Festival. The company continues its tradition of four new fully-staged productions, now including three operas and one work of American musical theater, performed with full orchestra, large cast and no sound amplification. These four productions are supplemented by special performances, cabarets, concerts, lectures and symposiums throughout the season. The company continues to attract an international audience to the scenic Cooperstown area, where the talent of singers, directors, designers and staff from around the world converges in the Alice Busch Opera Theater to produce world-class opera and music theater. Works & Process at the Guggenheim  Described by The New York Times as “forward thinking” and “an exceptional opportunity to understand something of the creative process,” since 1984 Works & Process has welcomed New Yorkers to see, hear, and meet the most acclaimed performers and creators of the performing arts. Led by Producer Caroline Cronson and Executive Director Duke Dang, Works & Process nurtures and champions new works, shapes representation, amplifies underrepresented voices and performing arts cultures, and offers audiences unprecedented access to generations of leading creators and performers. Artist-driven programs blending performance highlights with insightful discussions are, when permitted, followed by receptions in the rotunda, producing an opportunity for collective learning and community building while also helping to cultivate a more inclusive, fair, and representative world. Approximately fifty performances take place annually in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed, 273-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater. Annually Works & Process produces a program at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain as well. In 2017 Works & Process established a residency program inviting artists to create newly commissioned performances made in and for the iconic Guggenheim rotunda. In 2020 Works & Process Artists (WPA) Virtual Commissions was created to financially support 84 new works and over 280 artists and nurture their creative process during the pandemic. To forge a path for artists to safely gather, create, and perform during the pandemic from summer 2020 through spring 2021, Works & Process pioneered and produced 250 bubble residencies supporting 247 artists, made possible through the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. On March 20, 2021, after over a year of shuttered indoor performances and with special guidance from New York State’s Department of Health, Works & Process was the first cultural organization to reopen live, indoor ticketed performances in the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.  worksandprocess.org  Photo: The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson. Courtesy of the Glimmerglass Festival #guggenheimmuseum#fineartmagazine#glimmerglass #

GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS MAJOR ALBERTO BURRI RETROSPECTIVE: October 9, 2015_January 6, 2016

GUGGENHEIM PRESENTS MAJOR ALBERTO BURRI RETROSPECTIVE First Exhibition in the United States in Over 35 Years Devoted to the Italian Artist  Exhibition: Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York Location: Full rotunda Dates: October 9, 2015_January 6, 2016 (NEW YORK, NY–June 10, 2015)—From October 9, 2015, to January 6, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a major retrospective—the first in the United States in more than thirty-five years and the most comprehensive in this country—devoted to the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). Exploring the beauty and complexity of Burri’s process-based works, the exhibition positions the artist as a central protagonist of post–World War II art and revises traditional narratives of the cultural exchanges between the United States and Europe in the 1950s and ’60s. Burri broke with the gestural, painted surfaces of both American Abstract Expressionism and European Art Informel by manipulating unorthodox pigments and humble, prefabricated materials. A key figure in the transition from collage to assemblage, Burri barely used paint or brush, and instead worked his surfaces with stitching and combustion, among other signal processes. With his torn and mended burlap sacks, “hunchback” canvases, and melted industrial plastics, Burri often made allusions to skin and wounds, but in a purely abstract idiom. The tactile quality of his work anticipated Post-Minimalist and feminist art of the 1960s, while his red, black, and white “material monochromes” defied notions of purity and reductive form associated with American formalist modernism. Bringing together more than one hundred works, including many that have never before been seen outside of Italy, the exhibition demonstrates how Burri blurred the line between painting and sculptural relief and created a new kind of picture-object that directly influenced Neo-Dada, Process art, and Arte Povera.  Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting is organized by Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Guest Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with support from Megan Fontanella, Associate Curator, Collections and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the collaboration of Carol Stringari, Deputy Director and Chief Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.  View the full release. #1394 June 10, 2015 3Fineartmagazine

James Turrell Opens at the Guggenheim Museum in June

NEW YORK, NY James Turrell, the eminent American artist’s first solo exhibition in a New York museum since 1980. The exhibition features a major new site-specific work, Aten Reign (2013), which represents one of the most dramatic transformations of the museum ever conceived—reimagining the rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic building as one of Turrell’s luminous and immersive Skyspaces. Opening on the summer solstice, the installation will fill the museum’s central void with shifting natural and artificial light and intense, modulating color, creating a dynamic perceptual experience that exposes the materiality of light. Including select early works in addition to the monumental new installation, James Turrell considers the dominant themes explored by the artist for nearly fifty years, focusing on his investigations of perception, light, color, and space and the critical role of site-specificity in his practice. — From June 21 to September 25, 2013, the Guggenheim Museum presents James Turrell is one of three concurrent, independently curated presentations of the artist’s work in summer 2013. Together, the exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrate Turrell's groundbreaking career and form a three-part retrospective across the country.   James Turrell is curated by Carmen Giménez, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.