Curator talk: Peggy Guggenheim in London
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Gražina Šubelytė, Simon GrantCurator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Curator, writer, editor and art historian
- Location
- Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens and online
- Organisation
- Royal Academy of Arts
Topics
About this talk
Join curators Gražina Šubelytė and Simon Grant as they discuss Guggenheim Jeune, the gallery that brought the avant-garde to Britain. In the late 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim launched an art gallery in Mayfair that shocked the conservative tastes of the British art establishment. Guggenheim Jeune was a defining moment for Peggy Guggenheim and the catalyst for her becoming the art collector she is remembered as today. In this talk, curators Gražina Šubelytė and Simon Grant will discuss the making of the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim in London, which reunites groundbreaking works by artists including Eileen Agar, Salvador Dalí, Barbara Hepworth, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Henry Moore, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Cedric Morris and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
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