Despite being the most famous art collector in the world, Peggy Guggenheim is better known for her string of lovers. In her thrillingly indiscreet memoir, Out of This Century, she lists Samuel Beckett ...

In the current noble vogue of admirable female figures in documentaries, now comes Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict by Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Guggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the ...

Sometime three is not a charm — and neither is four. On Wednesday, a court dismissed the fourth attempt of several French descendants of Peggy Guggenheim to gain greater control of the deceased art ...

Rebecca Godfrey’s first two books, the novel “The Torn Skirt” and the true crime–investigation “Under the Bridge,” delve into the darkness of disaffected youth, abuse, and violence. Those elements ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

Laurie Anderson is a pioneering performing and recording artist, musician, composer, writer, painter, sculptor and more. Perhaps you think of her as the widow of Lou Reed of the legendary Velvet ...

The new exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes drawings of nude men and a large-scale work done in pencil, chalk, crayon and blood. By Hilarie M. Sheets A look back at a time when the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Printed material relating to Guggenheim Jeune and Art of this Century galleries date from 1938-1956 on 2 microfilm reels. The collection ...

All Venice likes to guess at what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the ...