Despite being the most famous art collector in the world, Peggy Guggenheim is better known for her string of lovers. In her thrillingly indiscreet memoir, Out of This Century, she lists Samuel Beckett ...

“I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it,” art doyenne Peggy Guggenheim once remarked. Indeed, the trailblazing collector and socialite bucked the conventions of her time, living a ...

In the current noble vogue of admirable female figures in documentaries, now comes Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict by Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Guggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the ...

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Sometime three is not a charm — and neither is four. On Wednesday, a court dismissed the fourth attempt of several French descendants of Peggy Guggenheim to gain greater control of the deceased art ...

VENICE, ITALY - 1968 : Peggy Guggenheim is sitting on a gondola travelling on the Venice canal across from her museum, she is dressed in blue clog and on her side is her pekingese dog; behind her is a ...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has issued another statement countering the “spurious” claims of the current lawsuit filed by two of Peggy Guggenheim’s grandsons, Sandro Rumney and Nicolas Hélion ...

It’s 10 a.m. in Venice and the fog has just about lifted. The skyline of Giudecca island is just about visible from the salon of 93-year-old textile heir and entrepreneur Alessandro Favaretto ...

The Society of the Four Arts has tapped Philip Rylands, founding director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, as its new president and chief executive officer. Rylands, 68, will start work ...

There is no figure in the history of twentieth-century art more difficult to keep in proper focus than the avid collector—the kind of collector, that is, who specializes in the acquisition of ...

A highly truncated timeline since World War II, with only some recency bias. By M.H. Miller The new exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes drawings of nude men and a large-scale work ...