Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

This guide to the Guggenheim Museum follows Hilla Rebay, the artist who painted Solomon Guggenheim's portrait in 1928 and convinced him to fund a museum devoted entirely to abstract art. You'll hear how she commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright in 1943 for his first New York building, and what fifteen years of sketches, rejected permits and revisions it took him to design the spiral rotunda. Look up at the white spiral overhead as you listen to the story of the people who fought over every curve of it.