Guggenheim Highlights

MOTONAGA Sadamasa. Work, 1963. Oil and gravel on canvas, 183.2 × 127.6 cm

this is a mix of various shows at the Guggenheim including:  Gutai: Splendid Playground, Kandinsky 1911-1913, Zarina: Paper Like Skin, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, and work from the Thannhauser Collection. 

If you find yourself at the Guggenheim, DO NOT SKIP THE ANNEX SHOWS. All the show titles above, minus the Gutai, are ALL located in annexes or spokes off the main spiral. I'm sometimes unimpressed with the work along the spiral and am more inspired by these smaller, sometimes more thoughtful, shows in these side galleries. Info on some of the images included is spotty. The Guggenheim's website for the Gutai show just plain sucks and finding info about works online is ridiculously difficult - i've got even more of a stink eye for the Guggenheim because of that fact.

The images aren't in any order and somewhat represent the break from the spiral into the annexes.

Atsuko Tanaka, Works 6 

Vasily Kandinsky, Lion Hunt (Löwenjagd), 1911. Oil on glass in artist's painted frame, 3 11/16 x 5 3/8 inches

Zarina Hashmi, Untitled, 1970. Relief print from collaged wood, printed in burnt umber on Indian handmade paper, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, edition 1/10.

Zarina Hashmi. Shadow House, 2006. Cut Nepalese paper, 175.3 x 99.1 cm

Saburo Murakami, Tôkyû kaiga (Work Painted by Throwing a Ball), 1954

Wah Nu and Tun Win Aung, White Piece #0131: Forbidden Hero (Breeze Before Storm) (from the installation Four Pieces [of White]), 2012, Acrylic and newspaper on canvas, 65 x 47.7 cm

Khadim Ali, Untitled 3, Rustam Series, 2011–12. Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 19 7/8 x 16 15/16 inches (50.5 x 43 cm)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In the Salon, c. 1893, pastel, gouache, oil, pencil, and watercolor on cardboard, 53 x 79.7 cm