“The Guggenheim Museum’s collection has been built over the past ninety years, reflecting the different passions and interests of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, and of the subsequent directors and curators who have tended to it. Institutional taste almost always aligns with the cultural values of any given era; collection exhibitions often serve to fulfill and defined what we call the art-historical canon, influencing which artists’ work gets displayed and which artistic movements are deemed important. But under the surface, hidden away in a museum’s storerooms, other stories accumulate, waiting to be told. … ” (Source: Guggenheim Museum)
