NEW YORK, NY.- More than fifty masterful paintings
from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York,
representing the work of over forty of the most important artists of the
twentieth century, will be on view in Abu Dhabi from November 17, 2009, to
February 4, 2010 in the exhibition “The Guggenheim: The Making
of a Museum.” The exhibition is presented under the patronage of His
Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi
and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. This serves as a fitting
endpoint to the presentation, as many of these artists and some of these
paintings were included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s inaugural
exhibition in 1959.