Nancy Spector

Preface Nine years liave passed and the century has changed since the first edition of this guidebook to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection was published. Now, on the threshold of the 21st century, the museum is, in many ways, a different institution than the one that...

FOREWORD STEPHEN HOBAN When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened in 1959, no one had seen a building quite like it before. This breathtaking spiral, set amid New York's rectangular grid, presented a new way of looking at art. It was the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright...