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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates Peggy's birthday with a concert

OnMonday, Aug. 26 at 9 p.m., on the occasion of Peggy Guggenheim 's birthday, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice celebrates its founder with its annual concert, in the sculpture garden, reserved for the Friends of the museum. Performing will b...
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Venice, a concert for Peggy Guggenheim's birthday

OnFriday, August 26 at 9 p.m., a concert will be held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to mark theanniversary of the famous collector'sbirth. Born Aug. 26, 1898, in New York City, Peggy Guggenheim chose Venice to spend the last 30 years of her life...
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Give the Gift of Art and become a Friend of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: until December 23, 20% discount

Until December 23, 2021, you can purchase a Peggy Guggenheim Collection membership card by taking advantage of a special 20 percent discount and thus become a Friend of the Museum. The benefits are many: from a year of free access to Palazzo Venier d...
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Art to Women!, Peggy Guggenheim Collection's new online lecture series kicks off

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's online classes are back, this time entirely dedicated to women. It is in fact titled Art to Women! the new online course consisting of six lectures curated by Alessandra Montalbetti. Women artists have long struggled...
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In Florence, Lediesis' Superwomen. The women of art, film and literature in street art version.

Superwomen in street art version invade the Murate in Florence: inaugurated on October 22 and open until November 5, 2020, the exhibition Superwomen by the Lediesis collective, created in collaboration with the Florence Queer Festival and the City of...
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All non-Western and non-European objects in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

The year was 1959 and ten years had already passed since the famous American collector Peggy Guggenheim (New York, 1898 - Camposampiero, 1979) had moved permanently to Venice, to the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni: starting that year, Peggy began to acquir...
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Peggy Guggenheim, the last dogaressa of Venice. Here is how her collection came into being and what her interests were

"It has always been taken for granted that Venice is the ideal city for a honeymoon, but this is a serious mistake. To come to Venice, or simply to visit it, is to fall in love with it, and in the heart there is no room left for anything else," so re...
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Peggy Guggenheim. The last dogaressa: masterpieces from her post-1948 collection on display.

From September 21, 2019 to January 27, 2020, the exhibition Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa, curated by Karole P.B. Vail with Grazina Subelyte. With this exhibition, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection intends to focus on post-1948 collecting, that...
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