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of art, not least its fabulous stash of Kandinsky paintings gathered by Solomon Guggenheim
(1861-1949), the mining millionaire who laid the foundations for the museum.
Temporary exhibits, often linked to pieces in the permanent collection, take up most of the
galleries, but you'll always see plenty of Kandinsky's exuberant work: look out particularly
for the jarring
Komposition 8
, and the abstract
Blue Mountain
.
The Level 2 and 3 annexes also contain permanent displays: highlights include Picasso's
haunting
Woman Ironing
, Van Gogh's vivid
Roadway with Underpass
, Cézanne's magnifi-
cent
Man with Crossed Arms
and
Dancers in Green and Yellow
by Degas. The museum also
owns notable paintings by Chagall, Gauguin, Kirchner, Matisse and Monet, as well as con-
temporary work by artists such as Roni Horn.
THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM
1083 Fifth Ave between E 89th and E 90th sts. Subway #4, #5, #6 to 86th St.
212 369 4880,
www.nationalacademy.org
.
Wed-Sun 11am-6pm. $15.
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A trip to the
National Academy of Design
, founded in 1825 along the lines of London's
Royal Academy, is more like a visit to a favourite relative's house than to a museum. The
building is an imposing Beaux-Arts townhouse, complete with carpeted rooms, a twisting
staircase and a fine collection of nineteenth-through to twenty-first-century painting; the
