Revising the Guggenheim

TAKE THIS MUSEUM AND SHAPE IT
CONTEMPLATING THE VOID
By Roberta Smith for the New York Times


The show features works, like this one from Saunders Architecture,
that re-imagine the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Ted Loos writes: "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum," which opened Friday, features 193 schemes for Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Fifth Avenue rotunda, that corkscrew structure that has delighted many (and also maddened quite a few) since it was built in 1959.

The exhibition is part of the museum’s continuing 50th anniversary celebration, and most of the designs will be auctioned off at an event in March, with proceeds going to future programming."

200 artists world-wide were invited to submit proposals.

Below, Anish Kapoor's proposed "smoke event."

Watch slide show here.