Art
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MIND BEHIND THE GUGGENHEIM Paintings by the first director of the Guggenheim Museum, Hilla Rebay, are on display at DC Moore Gallery. Rebay (1890-1967) moved to New York from her native Germany in 1927, where she became friends with Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters and made her living as a portrait painter. After painting a portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim, Rebay persuaded him to begin collecting abstract art. She eventually became the director of the resulting Museum of Non-Objective Painting, later renamed for Guggenheim. In his review of the show in The New York Sun, Lance Esplund wrote, “In terms of the advancement of non-objective art, Rebay remains one of the most important emigre to come to America during the first half of the 20th century.” A retrospective of Rebay’s paintings is also on view at the Guggenheim through August. Through Friday, June 24, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., DC Moore Gallery, 724 Fifth Ave. at 57th Street, 212-247-2111, free.
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