Hans Hofmann Biography: Guggenheim Collection (New York)

The uptown exhibition, "Masterpieces From the Guggenheim Collection," suggests that the museum is unused to having a lot of its permanent collection regularly on view.

But it is the inaugural exhibition, a six-artist show titled "From Brancusi to Bourgeois: Aspects of the Guggenheim Collection," that is most troubling.

Guggenheim Collection - Pop art - Rauschenberg - Untitled (Red Painting)

A sense of how that collecting is going can be had in "The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces From the Guggenheim Collection."

"Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection."

"Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection."

The 2007 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition was titled "Guggenheim Collection 1940s to now" (30 June to 7 October 2007) and showed more than 85 works by 68 artists, mainly from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, but also from other Guggenheim Museums in Venice, Bilbao, and Berlin.

"Masterpieces From the Guggenheim Collection" is on view to Aug. 27.

The Guggenheim's new downtown quarters will open with "From Brancusi to Bourgeois: Aspects of the Guggenheim Collection," featuring works by Constantin Brancusi, Louise Bourgeois, Wassily Kandinsky, Joseph Beuys, Carl Andre and Robert Ryman.