NEW YORK — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, announces the naming of its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed skylight in recognition of a major gift by the Lawson-Johnston family, which will benefit the museum’s general operations. The Lawson-Johnston Family Oculus honors the family’s significant contribution to the museum’s leadership. Peter Lawson-Johnston, the grandson of Solomon R. Guggenheim, has served on the foundation’s Board of Trustees for more than 50 years and is a past chairman. Two of his children, Peter Lawson-Johnston II and Wendy L-J. McNeil, are current members of the board, and his daughter, Mimi Lawson-Johnston Howe, is president of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Advisory Board.
Guggenheim to mount Alex Katz retrospective in October
NEW YORK — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Alex Katz: Gathering, a career retrospective staged in the city where Katz has lived and worked his entire life, and prepared with the close collaboration of the artist. On view from October 21 through February 20, 2023, the exhibition will fill the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda and an adjacent Tower Gallery. Encompassing more than 200 paintings, oil sketches, collages, drawings, prints and freestanding cutout works, the show will open with the artist’s intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway from his student days in the 1940s and culminate in the rapturous and immersive landscapes that have dominated his output in recent years.
Guggenheim receives $15M gift for arts education programs
NEW YORK — On July 20, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced that Gail and Alfred Engelberg and the Engelberg Foundation have committed $15 million to endow the museum’s arts education programs.