Program areas at SRGF
As part of its mission, the Foundation collects and preserves art for the benefit of the public in several ways. The curatorial staff studies the art in the Foundation's possession, plans international exhibitions for public viewing, and prepares and publishes scholarly catalogues and educational texts. The Foundation also lends many of the works of art in its collection to other museums on the occasion of special exhibitions that are of scholarly merit or that will broaden the public's appreciation of art. The Foundation maintains extensive climate-controlled, highly secure storage facilities for the art in its collection. It also operates a photography studio for the documentation of art and archives to store photographs of art and make them available to the public for publication or study. (continued on schedule o)
During 2020, the Foundation directly operated two museums: the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in new york and the peggy Guggenheim collection in venice. Both of these museums are open to the public to fulfill the Foundation's mission. The Foundation currently conducts virtual tours of its exhibitions and provides educational texts free of charge. Students and senior citizens are offered reduced-price tickets and children under the age of 12 are admitted free of charge.
Exhibitions presented in 2020 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in new york ("Guggenheim museum") included: Guggenheim collection: brancusi (march 17, 2017 - february 8, 2021); artistic license: six takes on the Guggenheim collection (may 24, 2019 - january 12, 2020); implicit tensions: mapplethorpe now (july 24, 2019 - january 5, 2020); the fullness of color: 1960s painting (december 18, 2019 - march 15, 2021); marking time: process in minimal abstraction (december 18, 2019 - march 15, 2020); countryside, the future (february 20, 2020 - february 15, 2021); knotted, torn, scattered: sculpture after abstract expressionism (october 3, 2020 - august 2, 2021); and away from the easel: jackson pollock's mural (october 3, 2020 - august 30, 2021). (continued on schedule o)