White facade
Curling round.
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An art museum on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side whose building is one of the landmarks of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it took fifteen years to design and build, was completed in 1959 and stirred great controversy with its unique shape. It centres on a six-storey, bowl-shaped white main gallery, inside which a spiral ramp winds upwards, so visitors walk past the artworks from bottom to top under a glass dome that lets in the light. The museum was founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting and took the name of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, in 1952. Its permanent collection covers Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art, with changing exhibitions throughout the year. Adult tickets are about $30, per visitor guides, and the price sometimes changes when the spiral ramp closes for a new installation. Even without going in, the curling white facade alone is worth the visit.
Curling round.
Among the art.
Above the gallery.
1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets, Manhattan
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