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  Guggenheim Museum - Terms & Conditions
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (the "Foundation") provides this Web site (the "Site") in support of its charitable and educational mission to further the understanding and appreciation of art by the public.
The Foundation maintains an extensive archive of architecture and art images related to its history and collection, some of which may appear or be referenced on the Site.
The Foundation's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless agreed to in writing by the Foundation.
www.guggenheim.org /terms_conditions.html   (2188 words)

  
  SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Guggenheim Foundation builds its largest museum in booming Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – The Guggenheim announced plans Saturday for a Frank Gehry-designed art museum in Abu Dhabi, a coup for the small Persian Gulf nation and the latest international franchise for the ambitious foundation.
The Guggenheim hopes to repeat its success in Bilbao, where Gehry's museum became the centerpiece of a renaissance in the once-decrepit port city and a huge tourist draw.
The crown prince envisions the Guggenheim as one of the anchors of a $27 billion “upscale cultural district” on Saadiyat Island that would seek to draw 3 million tourists by 2015.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20060708-1240-emirates-guggenheim.html   (917 words)

  
 Guggenheim
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, operates the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and the Guggenheim-Hermitage, Las Vegas.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is formed for the “promotion and encouragement and education in art and the enlightenment of the public.” Chartered by the Board of Regents of New York State, the Foundation is endowed to operate one or more museums.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs an alliance agreement with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, which becomes a trilateral alliance in early 2001 when these institutions are joined by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
www.guggenheim-venice.it /inglese/museum/fondazione.html   (1743 words)

  
 Historia
The choice of Bilbao as the venue for one of the Guggenheim European centers is best understood in the context of the initiatives implemented by the Basque authorities as a contribution to the process of revitalizing the Basque Country's recession-plagued economic structure.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the result of a unique process of collaboration, based largely on the complementary nature of their resources, between the Basque authorities and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The ambitious plan for bringing the Guggenheim Museum to Bilbao got under way in February 1991, when high-ranking representatives of the Basque authorities contacted the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation with a proposal for the latter to take part in the moves to revitalize Bilbao in particular and the Basque Country in general.
www.guggenheim-bilbao.es /ingles/historia/contenido.htm   (577 words)

  
 The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
The primary goal of the newly established foundation is to provide financial support and implement joint projects of the Hermitage and Guggenheim in the spheres of art, architecture, design and education.
Cooperation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage is based on the Long-term Collaboration Agreement signed by the museums in June 2000.
In 2002 Potanin was elected to the Trusteeship Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/b2003/hm11_1_85.html   (564 words)

  
  The Moline Foundation
Because foundations serve as society’s research and development arm--by funding programs that explore new problem-solving approaches--much of value is learned from those foundation-funded experiments that don’t work out as well as the wide-impact successes reflected in these grants.
It was foundation money that permitted a scientist to experiment and to discover the technology that helped this nation become the first to place a man on the moon.
Foundation physicians and scientists traveled to the cities and jungles of South America and West Africa, where they set up on-site laboratories and investigated causes of the disease.
www.molinefoundation.org /how.htm   (1537 words)

  
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Encyclopedia Information @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first Guggenheim museum, opened in 1939, was called the "Museum of Non-Objective Painting", and resided at an automobile showroom at East 54th St., in midtown Manhattan.
Guggenheim's niece, Peggy, donated her art collection and home in Venice, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, to the foundation in the mid-1970s.
He said that he wished the foundation would "concentrate more on New York and less on being scattered all over the world." Lewis had been the largest donor in the history of the Guggenheim, and it is not yet clear what effect his resignation will have on their future plans.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Foundation   (1357 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa - Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Foundation is to collect, preserve, research and present works of modern and contemporary art in all its forms.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is one of the most significant initiatives undertaken in the city to meet the challenges of the European Union and the year 2000.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens its doors with the threefold mission of bringing together and interpreting the most representative art of our time, fostering artistic education and the public's knowledge and understanding of the arts, and complementing the extensive collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
www.bm30.es /proyectos/guggy_uk.html   (1066 words)

  
 Opportunities - Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - Feb 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence.
Foundation funding is offered to projects related to violence, aggression, or dominance, with priority given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems in the modern world related to those topics.
www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/ops_education/ops_guggenheim.html   (1538 words)

  
 Deutsche Guggenheim
Deutsche Guggenheim is situated on Unter den Linden in the old and new centre of Berlin.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, established in 1937, is based on the private collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim with its focus on "non-objective" art.
The site in Germany establishes a special connection to the historical roots of the Guggenheim Foundation, inasmuch as the Guggenheim family originally came from Germany and Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Guggenheim Museum, emigrated to New York from what was at that time Prussia.
www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com /guggenheim/e   (551 words)

  
 Daniel and Harry Guggenheim — Promoters of Aviation Technology
This happened in the 1920s, when Daniel Guggenheim and his son Harry, two men who are generally not well known outside aviation history circles, contributed significantly to the growth of aviation and aviation technology in the United States.
The Guggenheims were a wealthy family who made the bulk of their money from the mining industry.
The Guggenheims convinced the noted aerodynamicist Theodor von Karman to emigrate to the United States to head the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Cal Tech (GALCIT).
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Evolution_of_Technology/guggenheim/Tech3.htm   (1593 words)

  
 Royce Carlton - Thomas Krens Director Guggenheim Museums
In 2004, the Guggenheim successfully completed a campaign to raise $25 million for the second phase of the capital project, to restore the exterior facade of the Wright building, upgrade the entire security and climate control systems, and provide public access to the roof terrace of the main building as Wright had originally intended.
The Guggenheim Bilbao opened to wide public acclaim in October 1997 and is now recognized by many critics and architectural historians as one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century.
While the Guggenheim collections are focused on the 20th century, beginning in 1996, and in keeping with the move toward internationalism, Mr.
www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/krens_bio.html   (1039 words)

  
 Royce Carlton, Inc.
Thomas Krens is Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which oversees and operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in Germany, and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas.
As a result of the extraordinary success of the Guggenheim Bilbao and the general international expansion concept, the Guggenheim Foundation has been approached by more than 120 cities to develop proposals and feasibility studies for new museums.
Guggenheim exhibitions traveling to other museums outside the Guggenheim network are seen by an additional million visitors per year.
www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/pf_krens_bio.html   (1012 words)

  
 Home|The Museum|Friendly Associations|Cooperation: Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Consequently, in the various Articles of the Agreement concluded between the three museums and devoted to the development of medium and long-term programs, the emphasis is on both international, cultural relations and on the comprehensive scholarly and educational potential of the collections.
Our objective is first and foremost to support the other partners to the best of our ability in their requirements and plans for exhibitions by means of collection loans and exchanges, and to show our willingness to present parts of our own collections in an appropriate manner in the galleries of the other partners.
The three partners are aware that the venues currently "covered" by them in St. Petersburg, Vienna, Innsbruck, New York, Venice, Bilbao, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, etc., where the Guggenheim Foundation, the KHM and the Hermitage are represented, provide ideal conditions for permanent cultural exchanges.
www.khm.at /staticE/page1945.html   (707 words)

  
 Guggenheim Drops Plans for East River Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In a three-paragraph e-mail message, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced that it had withdrawn its proposal to build a polymorphous, 400-foot-tall building designed by Frank Gehry on Piers 9, 13 and 14, south of the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan.
Thomas Krens, the foundation director, acknowledged as unrealistic the prospect of financing the $950 million project at a time when the museum is cutting budget, staff and programs.
Gehry, the architect of the remarkable Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, drew large crowds to the Fifth Avenue museum in 2000 and 2001 to see a 12-by-5-foot model of the East River structure, surrounded by smaller models and renderings.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/irvinem/visualarts/museums/NYT-GuggenheimDropsEastRiverMuseum-12-31-02.html   (830 words)

  
 Guggenheim Hermitage Museum - Press Releases -
The Guggenheim Foundation was the principal force in producing feasibility studies for museum projects in Salzburg, Vienna, Osaka, and Tokyo in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Guggenheim operates five museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, and Berlin, and has operational alliances with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Zentrum f¸r Kunst und Mediatechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The Guggenheim has pioneered the development of museum expansion on an international scale, and has used economic and demographic research tools to establish the rationale and foundation for its international projects.
www.guggenheimlasvegas.org /press_releases/release_126.html   (1149 words)

  
 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation General Information Page
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to a son who died April 26, 1922.
The Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed.
The Foundation consults with distinguished scholars and artists regarding the accomplishments and promise of the applicants and presents this evidence to the Committee of Selection.
www.gf.org /broch.html   (0 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - History
She establishes the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation to operate and endow the museum.
The name of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting is changed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to designate it as a memorial to its founder, who died in 1949, and to signify a shift toward a broader view of modern and contemporary art.
Thomas M. Messer is appointed Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in addition to his role overseeing the New York museum, and he supervises a major effort to conserve and document the Venice holdings.
www.guggenheim.org /history.html   (0 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Copyright
Neither the Guggenheim nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site.
The Guggenheim also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.
Furthermore, The Guggenheim is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
www.guggenheim.org /copyright.html   (0 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Guggenheim Foundation to build its largest museum in Abu Dhabi   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Guggenheim Foundation announced Saturday it had commissioned American architect Frank Gehry to build a new branch of the Guggenheim modern and contemporary art museum in this Gulf Emirate.
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is planned at 323,000 square feet, larger than any of the existing Guggenheim museums.
Observers say the development of a world-class art museum like the Guggenheim may serve to defuse critics who have complained the cities lack the cultural amenities of the world's great cities.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-07-08-guggenheim-abudhabi_x.htm?csp=34   (364 words)

  
 THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, RESPONDENT, v. MRS. JULES LUBELL, APPELLANT. (THIRD & FOURTH-PARTY ACTIONS.)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which operates the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, is seeking to recover a Chagall gouache worth an estimated $200,000.
The Guggenheim believes that the gouache was stolen from its premises by a mailroom employee sometime in the late 1960s.
Lubell claims that before the Guggenheim's demand for its return in 1986, she had no reason to believe that the painting had been stolen.
www.law.cornell.edu /nyctap/I91_0018.htm   (2364 words)

  
 PND - RFPs - Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Accepting Applications for Research Grants
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance.
The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year.
The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
foundationcenter.org /pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=1900150   (293 words)

  
 Home|News|medien, presse(-stimmen) E|A new Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro in collaboration with the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Today - with the unanimous support of the Board of Directors of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation - the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Cesar Maia, and Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, signed the contract for the errection of a new Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro.
The errection of the Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro means the realisation of the Guggenheim Foundation´s long-cherished plan to establish an important museum in Latin America.
"The Guggenheim Museum in Rio is the logical next step in the development of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation", said Peter B. Lewis, the Foundation´s chairman.
www.khm.at /staticE/page2863.html   (540 words)

  
 Guggenheim Foundation and Abu Dhabi Plan Museum There - New York Times
The government of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, announced yesterday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a 300,000-square-foot museum in Abu Dhabi to be designed by Frank Gehry.
The museum, to be called the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, would house Modern and contemporary art and serve as the linchpin of a sprawling development in a new cultural district of Saadiyat (Arabic for "isle of happiness"), a 10-square-mile natural island just off Abu Dhabi.
A planned Guggenheim in Taiwan by the architect Zaha Hadid never materialized because the local government of Taichung could not raise the money; a proposed Guggenheim in Rio de Janeiro to be designed by Jean Nouvel was abandoned last year.
www.nytimes.com /2006/07/09/world/middleeast/09gugg.html?ex=1310097600&en=900103ef738845ba&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (614 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 10/17/2002: Poet's Winding Path Leads to a Job as a Foundation President
Hirsch has been awarded a "genius" fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rome Prize, which allowed him to live and write in Rome for a year, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, among others.
I suppose the foundation liked my written reports because eventually I was invited to serve on the final selection committee.
I had a Guggenheim fellowship that enabled me to hit an entirely new level in my work; I had a splendid year at the American Academy in Rome; I had five liberating years under the auspices of a MacArthur fellowship.
www.philanthropy.com /free/articles/v15/i01/01002801.htm   (1291 words)

  
 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Scholarships   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Scholarships and grants are primarily for research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance.
The foundation particularly welcomes proposals that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
The deadline for receipt by the Foundation for general research grants is August 1 and the deadline for Dissertation awards is February 1.
www.kenyan-students.com /Harry-Frank-Guggenheim-Foundation-Scholarships.html   (158 words)

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