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- Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark museum is visited as much for its famous architecture as it is for its superlative art. Opened in 1959, shortly after Wright died, the Guggenheim is an icon of modern architecture, designed specifically to showcase and complement modern art. Outside the curvaceous building, Wright's attention to detail is evident in the porthole-like windows on its south side, the circular pattern of the sidewalk, and the smoothness of the hand-plastered concrete. Inside, under a 92 foot high glass dome, a quarter-mi-long ramp spirals down past changing exhibitions.
The museum has strong holdings in Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, and Robert Mapplethorpe. In its Tower galleries, double-high ceilings accommodate extra large art pieces, and the Tower's fifth-floor sculpture terrace has a extraordinary view overlooking Central Park. Always on display, the museum's Thannhauser Collection is comprised primarily of works by French impressionists and neo-impressionists including Matisse, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cézanne. Limited exhibitions focus on artists ranging from Norman Rockwell to Jeff Koons.
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