1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Rashid Johnson - A Poem For Deep Thinkers

The Guggenheim, 2025-05-03

The central exhibition at the Guggenheim on our visit, wrapping itself around the building’s helix structure. The Guggenheim is one of my favourite buildings certainly in New York, maybe the world. Getting to just slowly ascend, the way the spiralling view of the ceiling transforms into the spiralling view of the ground. I take very easily to Johnson’s work. The lower levels of the rotunda are filled with culturally focused abstract art - some beautiful pieces built around shelves and books, an eventual obsession with red, white, and blue in self-portraits. But then the top of the rotunda is full to the brim with with plant life and greenery, itself taking over the whole space with hanging vines.