Guggenheim Public 1996-2001

In 1996, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice created Guggenheim public as an endeavour to define and refine the concept of "public" as a shared space of communication.

The unfolding of the experiment, involving weekly and bi-weekly evening meetings of a regular cadre of poets, artists, historians, economists, scientists, philosophers and others, on a broad range of topics of both personal and mutual interest, has shown that persons coming from different horizons and disciplines do converge, creating a dynamic that goes beyond individual identities.

Edited by Anita Sieff, who conceived the project together with Richard A.

Rifkind, this book collects the proceedings of the five years with black-and-white photos depicting people and meetings.