GUGGENHEIM RECEIVES $1 MILLION AWARD
Julie Bloom reports in the New York Times that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been selected for a one-million-dollar special award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its upcoming exhibition “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989.” The exhibition, which will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum from January 30 through April 19, will feature approximately 270 works covering a range of media and disciplines and will represent more than one-hundred artists, including John La Farge, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Arthur Wesley Dow, Georgia O’Keeffe, Augustus Vincent Tack, Ezra Pound, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, David Smith, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, Jack Kerouac, Yoko Ono, and Bill Viola. Objects from European and Japanese museums will be on loan for the exhibition, as well as items on loan from more than 110 American museums and private collections.
