MAY 28, 2019
Guggenheim Celebrates WorldPride in June
This June, New York is the host city for WorldPride—an international celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community—in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is excited to participate with special programming, commemorative merchandise, and a social media spotlight of LGBTQIA+ artists in the Guggenheim’s collection.
AT THE MUSEUM
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (1991)
On view June 1–30
The Guggenheim will exhibit Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Untitled (1991), a broadsheet iteration of his seminal billboard Untitled (1989). The billboard was first presented in 1989 by Public Art Fund on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and installed across from the historic Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwich Village. It will return to its original location on June 4. The broadsheet can be found in the Guggenheim’s Tower Level 2 gallery throughout the month of June.
Mapplethorpe Mondays
Mondays, 2 pm
These weekly exhibition tours of Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now are focused on art and censorship and new pathways for queer photographers. Mapplethorpe Mondays is part of Art in the Round tour series and free with museum admission.
Children’s Book Illustrator Series: Jessie Sima
Sunday, June 9, 1–4 pm
Celebrate the many forms that love can come in with Love, Z by Jessie Sima. Price per family (includes admission, workshop materials, and one copy of the featured book): $40; $30 for Family Members, and Cool Culture families.
Museum Mile Festival
Tuesday, June 11, 6–9 pm
Now in its 41st year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 110th Streets. Eight museums will be free and open to the public, including the Guggenheim, which will also host an outdoor performance by the all-women Fogo Azul NYC, a Brazilian samba and reggae drum line.
Curator’s Eye Tour
Wednesday, June 12, 12 pm
Join Levi Prombaum, Curatorial Assistant, Collections, on an in-depth tour of Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now. Free with museum admission.
IN THE STORE
The Guggenheim Store, located on the Rotunda Floor and Level 6, will feature a suite of items celebrating Pride, including a T-shirt featuring the museum’s logo in the colors of the rainbow, a postcard of Richard Hamilton’s The Solomon R. Guggenheim (Spectrum) (1965–66), and a set of three tumblers by Ceramics and Theory imprinted with the gender pronouns “she/her,” “he/him” and “they/them.” These items are also available online at guggenheimstore.org, and all purchases support the museum.
ONLINE
Guggenheim followers around the world can join the celebrations through social media spotlights on Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now with #MapplethorpeMondays, and on LGBTQIA+ artists in the collection. And we invite you to visit the museum’s blog where Curatorial Assistant Levi Prombaum writes about the sexual culture in the 1970s in relation to work in Implicit Tensions and from the museum’s collection.