February 17, 2010

Animal Collective, Danny Perez in Guggenheim takeover

Update: An extra session has been added for March 4 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., the Guggenheim Museum announced today, March 1. Tickets are on sale now.

Animal Collective and artist Danny Perez will stage a site-specific performance at the Guggenheim Museum on March 4 “in the context of Tino Sehgal, for which the entire Guggenheim rotunda is cleared of art objects for the first time in the museum’s history,” museum officials announced today.

The original work, titled “Transverse Temporal Gyrus,” seeks to turn the museum into a “kinetic, psychedelic environment” with recorded music, video projections, costumes, and props.

The event will run from 9 p.m. to midnight.

Tickets will go on sale to museum members Thursday, Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. for $25. Any remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday Feb. 19 at 10 a.m. for $30.

Update as of 10:25 a.m. Friday: The Guggenheim’s official Twitter feed just announced the event has sold out.

Image source: Guggenheim Museum.

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February 17, 2010 4:33 PM in Museums, Sightsology, Upper East Side

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