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/ˈɡuɡənˌhaɪm/
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NOUN
- United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)
- United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949)
How To Use Guggenheim In A Sentence
- That is very much part of the social bargain whereby writers are "left alone" to implement their craft, as opposed to being harassed or hounded out of existence; they get their NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and everyone is happy since the power equations in society remain undisturbed. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
- ABOVE: The Guggenheim, inside links to museum's site, timeline of the building's constructionABOVE: Nautilus shell's spiral of chambers, called camerae, that this cephalopod builds for itself as it grows. Starship & Museum Bulletin Board #1
- One thinks of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as a similar building, which is now acting as a catalyst in drawing considerable numbers of tourists to a previously unregarded port township.
- At the Guggenheim there will be one singer, whose voice will be completely distorted by the nautiloid curves of the museum and a PA system, so I'm going to have to break down the visual vocabulary of abstraction and directly connect it to the forces and geometry described in the Randall/Sundrum model. Matthew Ritchie: A Perilous Intellectual High Wire Act
- La Movida first showed the world that Spain — which now conjures up images of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Pedro Almod ó var's melodramas and Ferran Adri à 's foams — could mean more than castanets, bull fights and suntan lotion. In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style
- Then, in a mini-scandal that same year, the Guggenheim deaccessioned 24 paintings, including a number by Scarlett, Bauer and Rebay, prompting charges that the museum was selling off its history.
- It's a question all education leaders, politicians, and the chattering classes have been busying themselves with since the release of Davis Guggenheim's searing (and unflattering) documentary. Steve Barr At Big Task Weekend: We're Close, But We're Still Just 'Cute'
- After the heroic installations of Judd, Flavin and Andre on the lower floors of the Guggenheim, McCollum's modestly sized, wall-mounted works looked, well, dinky.
- We skipped the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim and instead took a mosey around a few private galleries on the Upper East Side.
- So is the saga of internecine strife behind the luxurious façades of the Guggenheim museum empire. Times, Sunday Times