During her lifetime, the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim amassed a groundbreaking collection of modern art, featuring a roll call of 20th-century luminaries from Brancusi to Braque, Picasso to Pollock. Her Venice palazzo home, where she showed the works, became a hub for artists and art lovers, but was also the base for extravagant parties attracting celebrities, friends and lovers. We’ll be exploring her life and the art that inspired it with guest speakers:
Karole Vail, director of Venice Guggenheim and Peggy’s granddaughter;
Vera Fine-Grodzinski, curator, lecturer and writer, who has written about Guggenheim in our Summer 2025 magazine and will give a talk on her at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing this autumn (14 Oct);
Grazina Subelyte, curator, who will talk about Peggy's gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, which is the subject of an exhibition coming from Venice to the Royal Academy in London in November 2026.
Join us to discover the colourful life and remarkable legacy of this renowned figure.
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Pictured: Peggy Guggenheim © The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005