"I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it," art doyenne Peggy Guggenheim once remarked. Indeed, the trailblazing collector and socialite bucked the conventions of her time, living a bohemian lifestyle (including a brief and fiery marriage to Max Ernst), while championing women artists in an age when most female creatives were sidelined to roles of wife and muse.
This week, New York art-lovers will have the rare and fleeting chance to see the work of the women artists Guggenheim heralded in the very 57th Street space that was once her Art of This Century Gallery. This time-traveling experience is the work of Tony Award-winning producer Jenna Segal who has revived Guggenheim's pivotal "Exhibition of 31 Women"-the first-of-its-kind in 1943 to showcase only women artists-to mark its 80th anniversary. Segal's show will run for a total of 31 hours, spread out over a week...
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