Peggy Guggenheim and modern women: an online meeting open to all

Open to all is the educational meeting entitled Peggy Guggenheim and Modern Women, organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

Grazina Subelyte, Associate Curator of the museum, will tell how Peggy Guggenheim, throughout her life, strongly supported women, both artists and non-artists. These include photographer Berenice Abbott, writer Djuna Barnes, anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman, and prominent women artists such as Rita Kernn-Larsen, Irene Rice Pereira, Alice Rahon, and Sonja Sekula.

The meeting takes place on Wednesday, April 7 at 4 p.m. on the Zoom platform and is free of charge. It will be held in Italian and will last about 45 minutes, followed by a short question and answer session.

Teachers attending the meeting can request a certificate of attendance by writing to didattica@guggenheim-venice.it

It is necessary to make a reservation by filling out the appropriate form: you will receive a confirmation email with a link to participate in the webinar.

Pictured is Peggy Guggenheim in the garden of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, 1950s. Behind her is Karel Appel, The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun, 1956. Photo Roloff Beny / courtesy of Archives and National Archives of Canada.

Peggy Guggenheim and modern women: an online meeting open to all

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