Art & Design|The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen
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The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen
The famed institution — and others — are reaching out to audiences who cannot connect to art in typical ways.
A participant in a Mind’s Eye program at the Guggenheim Museum, in 2019. The program, which serves the blind and partially sighted, includes a sensory tour featuring the actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bobby Canavale and BD Wong.Credit…David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
By Laurel Graeber
May 19, 2021
This article is part of our latest special report on Museums, which focuses on reopening, reinvention and resilience.
Several eminent New Yorkers were by my side on a recent visit to the Guggenheim Museum.
“From bottom to top, the building is like a crescendo,” the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal told me as I climbed the rotunda’s massive, spiraling walkway. Later, I ran my fingers along the bumpy [...]
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