One of the most prominent features of art from the late eighteenth century onwards, particularly after World War II, is artists’ tendency to evolve traditional artmaking methods outside the studio’s boundaries. This exhibition examines the ways in which contemporary artists enacted new ideas formed by the social and historical contexts of their time and pushed the boundaries of artmaking and materials as a result.

By Way Of offers a suite of works from the museum’s permanent collection inspired by the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift. Major artists from the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s, like Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz share the galleries with artists working today, such as Rashid Johnson, Mona Hatoum, and Senga Nengudi.

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection is organized by Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator.

Photo: Maro Michalakakos, Oh! Happy Days (Oh! Les Beaux Jours), 2012. Polyurethane foam, polyester fiber, and acrylic latex paint. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection donated jointly to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 2022.207. Photo: Ariel Williams.

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The first major solo museum presentation of fourth-generation Navajo weaver Melissa Cody (b. 1983, No Water Mesa, Arizona) spans the last decade of her practice, showcasing over 30 weavings and a major new work produced for the exhibition. Using long-established weaving techniques and incorporating new digital technologies, Cody assembles and reimagines popular patterns into sophisticated geometric overlays, incorporating atypical dyes and fibers. Her tapestries carry forward the methods of Navajo Germantown weaving, which developed out of the wool and blankets that were made in Germantown, Pennsylvania and supplied by the US government to the Navajo people during the forced expulsion from their territories in the mid-1800s. During this period, the rationed blankets were taken apart and the yarn was used to make new textiles, a practice of reclamation which became the source of the movement. While acknowledging this history and working on a traditional Navajo loom, Cody’s masterful works exercise experimental palettes and patterns that animate through reinvention, reframing traditions as cycles of evolution.

MoMA PS1
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The exhibition Crafting Modernity, Design in Latin America, 1940 - 1980 tells the story of the birth and evolution of modern design in Latin America through more than 300 objects, including furniture, posters, textiles, ceramics, representing a wide range of styles, from modernism to folkloric design. This fascinating exhibition shows how, under the impetus of pioneering artists such as Clara Porset and Lina Bo Bardi, Latin American designers have combined their local traditions, indigenous techniques and industry to create objects that are simultaneously aesthetic, functional and reflective of their cultures.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Floor 3, 3 North (The Philip Johnson Galleries)
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This exhibition presents a selection of prints by the artist, illustrator, and children’s book author Wanda Gág (1893-1946). These works record the world as Gág experienced it: a place where landscapes move rhythmically and inanimate objects hum with life. Although she also painted, the graphic arts offered her the most effective method for expressing this unique vision.

Born in Minnesota to immigrants from German Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), Gág arrived in New York in 1917 to study at the Art Students League, where she became a fixture of the city’s modernist art scene. Adhering neither to abstraction nor social realism—the dominant artistic movements at the time-Gág forged her own approach to figuration. Over the course of her career, she found modest success selling her prints and produced several popular children’s books, examples of which are presented in the show. Gág was also a prolific writer about her life and work, and excerpts from her letters and diaries accompany the prints on view.

Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, the works in this exhibition span roughly two decades, ranging from the mid-1920s to the year before Gág's death. Together, these still lifes, landscapes, and interiors illuminate what the artist called “Wanda Gág world,” demonstrating her fervent quest to capture the feeling and movement of life as she saw it.

Wanda Gág’s World is co-curated by Roxanne Smith, Senior Curatorial Assistant, and Scout Hutchinson, Curatorial Fellow.

Photo: Winter Twilight, 1927

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The Guggenheim is continuing to celebrate the ideas, people, and art at the core of its mission by offering virtual and in-person Mind’s Eye programming, including verbal description and conversation for participants who are blind or have low vision.

Visitors are invited to meet the team that cares for the museum's collection and learn more about conservation efforts at the Guggenheim, including the extensive research and treatment of Jenny Holzer’s Installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Join museum educators along with Agathe Jarczyk, Associate Time-Based Media Conservator, and Francesca Esmay, The Alfred Flechtheim Director of Engagement, Conservation & Collections Care, for a special program highlighting their work.

This in-person session, on Wednesday, September 11 from 2:00-4:00pm ET will feature a special visit behind-the-scenes to experience Jenny Holzer’s Installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and learn about its conservation and treatment.

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