Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Ave at 89th St
New York City
Join us this summer at the Guggenheim Museum for an exciting lineup of performances, gallery talks, and films accompanying the exhibitions on view. All programs (except films) include receptions and opportunities to view current exhibitions: Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe and Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today. For tickets, student RSVP, and more information on all public programs, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
Performance
PAAAAAAroooooole in Libertà Futuriste (Futurist Wwwwwwoooooords-in-Freedom)
Monday, June 9, 6:30pm
In conjunction with Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa performs declamations of selected words-in-freedom poems by F. T. Marinetti and Francesco Cangiullo as well as compositions by Paolo Buzzi, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, and Aldo Palazzeschi, among others. The performance includes a special presentation of Cangiullo’s Piedigrotta accompanied by Neapolitan folk instruments. Discounted student tickets are available.
Performance-lecture
On the Future of Art
Wednesday, June 18, 6:30pm
Multidisciplinary artist Pablo Helguera presents a theatrical reprise of the 1969 lecture series “On the Future of Art,” which was organized by former Guggenheim Museum curator Edward Fry, to consider how our ideas and perceptions about art are transformed through time, geography, translation, and personal experience. As part of the exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Helguera interweaves the discussions from the 1969 lectures with other stories, such as that of longtime Guggenheim archivist Ward Jackson and Helguera’s investigation of the Chuquicamata mine owned by the Guggenheim Brothers in northern Chile. A limited number of free student tickets are available with RSVP.
Gallery talk
“Italian Futurist Design: From Furniture to Ceramics”
Tuesday, June 24, 6:30pm
Silvia Barisione, Curator, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, explores Futurist design and decorative arts from the activity of the so-called case d’arte (art houses), Futurist workshops for the creation of furnishings, textiles, toys, and household goods, to the Futurist ceramic production sanctioned by the 1938 publication of “Ceramics and aeroceramics: Futurist manifesto.” A limited number of discounted student tickets are available.
Gallery programs
Siesta Talks: Art in the Afternoon
Wednesdays, 1:30pm
June 25: Iván Navarro
July 9: Erika Verzutti
August 13: Rebecca Mir
In this dynamicseries, exhibition artists Iván Navarro and Erika Verzutti and Guggenheim educator Rebecca Mir respond to works on view in Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, exploring such engaging themes as artistic materials, form, language, music, and politics. A limited number of free students tickets are available with RSVP.
Film screenings
Italian Futurism film series
Fridays, June 6–August 1 (except July 4), 1pm
New Media Theater
Free with museum admission
Thaïs, 1916
Dir. Anton Giulio Bragaglia, 36 minutes
Courtesy George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
While many Futurist artists shied away from new technologies in their practice, Anton Giulio Bragaglia made important advancements in the field of photography and film. Thaïs, which features a classic Italian diva, is the only extant Futurist film from the 1910s.
The Mechanical Man (L’uomo meccanico), 1921
Dir. André Deed, 26 minutes
The Mechanical Man parallels a broader attempt by young Italian artists, writers, and activists to link the Futurist avant-garde with communist proletariat culture through the cult of the machine.
Velocità (Vitesse), 1930–31
Dir. Pippo Oriani, approximately 13 minutes
Provided as a grant of the Oriani Foundation
Velocità exemplifies the experimental nature of Futurist cinema. Speeding trains and whirring typewriters speak to the movement’s love of speed and mechanical devices, while toy airplanes soaring over collaged landscapes embody the national fascination with flight.
Upcoming summer highlights
–Performance: FUTURISMUSIC,Wednesday, July 16, 6:30pm
–Artist talk: A Conversation: Tania Bruguera and Karen Finley, Tuesday, July 22, 6:30pm
–Film screenings: Tropical Uncanny: Latin American Tropes and Mythologies, Fridays, August 8–September 26, 1pm. Copresented with Cinema Tropical.
Italian Futurism 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe is made possible by Lavazza.
Support is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the David Berg Foundation, with additional funding from the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation and The Robert Lehman Foundation. The Leadership Committee for Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe is also gratefully acknowledged for its generosity, including the Hansjörg Wyss Charitable Endowment; Stefano and Carole Acunto; Giancarla and Luciano Berti; Ginevra Caltagirone; Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Archive; Daniela Memmo d’Amelio; Achim Moeller, Moeller Fine Art; Pellegrini Legacy Trust; and Alberto and Gioietta Vitale. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a cultural engagement of UBS.
Public programs are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Film screenings are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
