A New Era for a Modern Museum: The Guggenheim Names Naomi Beckwith Its New Deputy Director and Chief Curator
Photo: Nathan Keay for MCA Chicago, Heather Shimmin (Shutterstock)
For 84 years, New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has represented the vanguard of modern art, an early champion of artists today, its nautilus shell-inspired structure houses artworks from generations of the world’s most visionary and experimental artists. Yet like many fine arts museums, for decades, the Guggenheim’s iconic spiral of galleries have proved a primarily Eurocentric domain in both artists and infrastructure.
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As such, the museum made headlines in 2019 when (
Art Industry News: Jeff Koons Has Joined MasterClass to Teach His Uniquely Cosmic Perspective on Making Art + Other Stories
Plus, the staff at Pittsburgh s Carnegie Museums vote to unionize and the Mapplethorpe Foundation is under scrutiny for taking a PPP loan.
Jeff Koons, mid-lesson. Courtesy of MasterClass.
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Carnegie Museums Staff Vote to Unionize – Employees at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museums are the latest in a wave of museum workforces to vote in favor of joining a union. Full-time and part-time staff at the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Science Center, and Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History voted 278 to 75 to join the United Steelworkers’ 500-member United Museum Workers unit. (