Tag Archives: Peggy Guggenheim

eccentric patrons

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading →

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peggy

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

The Buddenbrook’s Syndrome according to Thomas Mann was the rags to riches to shirtsleeves scenario, where the drive to continue to accumulate great wealth would diminish through succeeding generations; a waning enthusiasm for grabbing the bull by the horns. By … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Courmes, Benjamin Guggenheim, Buddenbrooks syndrome, Caspar David Friedrich, Herbert Read Museum director, Hilla Rebay, Jacqueline Weld, leonora carrington, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Michele C. Cone, Peggy Guggenheim, Rudolf Bauer, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Mann | Leave a comment

buddenbrooks syndrome

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

The Guggenheims, father and sons, amassed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in rather less than fifty years. The money was longer in the spending, but in the process some of the family displayed a disposition to take remarkable … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baroness Hilla Rebay, Edward Alden Jewell, Fernand Leger, frank lloyd wright guggenheim, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meyer Guggenheim, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Mann, Wassily Kandinsky, William Muschenheim | Leave a comment

self made fan: not so crazy guggenheims

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

According to legend, on a certain Sabbath eve Meyer Guggenheim, patriarch of the family that was to become so rich and heavy laden, summoned his seven sons into his study, one by one. To each in turn he showed seven … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barbara Guggenheim, Branch Rickey, Buddenbrooks syndrome, Debi Unger, Francis Morrone, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meyer Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim, Roger Straus Sr., Thomas Mann, Thomas Sully | Leave a comment

artful banker

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dave

David Rockefeller’s buying program at the Chase Manhattan Bank made it the greatest corporate patron of art, and started the game of corporate art collecting. It was the thing to do if you were a big blue chip American businessman … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alfred h. barr, Andre Derain, cy twombley, David Rockefeller art collection, Dorothy Miller MOMA, gordon bunshaft, James Johnson Sweeney, Jean Cocteau, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, Perry Rathbone, Robert Beverly Hale, Walter Murch | Leave a comment

totem: live and let die

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dave

It is an art that knew how to live, and equally, and art that knows how to die. The totem poles of the Pacific are vanishing into the earth. The last totem poles stand on deserted beaches on the edge … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, barnett newman, berkhamsted totem pole, bruce kirkby, charles frederick newcombe, edward s. curtis, george nelson quatsino artist, Haida pole, haida totem pole, Henri Matisse, henry hunt carver, Max Ernst, mungo martin carver, nelson rockefeller, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Peggy Guggenheim, tony hunt carver, totem sculptures | Leave a comment

ENEMIES IN ARMS

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dave

In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading →