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Congratulatory Letter from Lawrence Kupferman
“I want to congratulate you on your new directorship – New York’s gain and our real loss.”
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Dear Mr. Messer
“As you have experienced yourself, it is a curious sensation to address someone by one’s own name, especially in an instance where this is not to be taken for granted and where everything but the...
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Correspondence with Artists’ Wives
This holiday card featuring a reproduction of Collage (1958) by Jean Arp was sent to Thomas Messer by Marguerite Arp, the wife of the famed artist.
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Carl Andre Opening
The exhibition Carl Andre ran from September 29– November 22, 1970 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and consisted of both sculpture and poems.
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Postcard from Bĕla Kolářová to Thomas M. Messer, 1979
Artist Bĕla Kolářová, wife of fellow Czech artist Jiří Kolář, sent this postcard to Thomas M. Messer in 1979.
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Unpacking Ceramics for Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru, 1968
This photograph documents the careful unpacking of artworks to be displayed in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 1968 exhibition, Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru.
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The Correspondence of James Lee Byars
The artist James Lee Byars corresponded with Thomas M. Messer between 1965 and 1988, almost the entire duration of Messer's directorship at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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Blue Moment by Louva E. Irvine
Exploring what happens when the people who present art become art themselves, Louva E. Irvine’s film Blue Moment follows former Guggenheim director Thomas M. Messer through an exhibition opening.
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Q&A with Francine Snyder
Francine Snyder, former director of the Library and Archives at the Guggenheim, answered some common questions about Findings—how the project started, what it’s like to shuffle through archival...
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The James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theater
In the fall of 1971, the Company Theater of Los Angeles put on a series of unusual evening performances at the Guggenheim that invited the audience to be participants, not spectators.
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