October 21, 2009
Free day at Guggenheim marks museum's 50th anniv
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum today marks its 50th anniversary on Fifth Avenue by opening its doors for free all day.
The museum, which was first known as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, is currently mounting a major exhibition of Vasily Kandinsky, whose art is fundamental to the Guggenheim collection.
Today, the museum also opens Anish Kapoor’s “Memory.”
The celebrations today will include family activities, a 4:30 p.m. architecture tour via Twitter, as well as a screening of the documentary “Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum.”
The Guggenheim today will be open for free from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. It’s worth noting that the museum offers pay-what-you-wish admission every Saturday from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m. Regular adult admission is normally $18.
(A few blocks up the street, the Cooper-Hewett is free every day through this Saturday for Design Week.
The Empire State Building will also mark the anniversary by tonight lighting up “in the museum’s signature red,” according to a news release issued by the skyscraper’s publicity team.
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
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October 21, 2009 8:21 AM in Cheap Stuff, Kids, Museums, Techology, Tours, Upper East Side
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