Growing up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise
 

Growing up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise

by Peter Lawson-Johnston


In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston, a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture, shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy. In addition to first-hand biographical... (read more)

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I love the Guggenheim. While one of my unsuccessful dotcom-era investments was one curiously called Guggenheim.com (and rated a paragraph in Peter Lawson-Johnston’s memoir), the experience did not diminish my fascination with all things Guggenheim. We went to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (wow! what a collection) and I picked up this book while I was there. Lawson-Johnston tells a good story.

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