Douglas Gordon.MOCA AT THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY In 1993, Douglas Gordon projected a super-slo-mo video version of Hitchcock's Psycho psy·cho (s   k )n. A psychopath. adj. , and the art world has never been quite the same. The Glasgow artist personifies contemporary art's fixation on cinema over the last decade. This first US survey includes new as well as familiar projects. Organized by Russell Ferguson and accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by the late David Sylvester (among others), this show proves that bringing film to LA is nothing like bringing coal to Newcastle. Sept. 16-Jan. 20; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum, officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: see Guggenheim Museum., major museum of modern art in New York City. Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular building (1959) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It holds major exhibitions of the works of contemporary artists. Its permanent collection includes, among many modern works, numerous pieces by Brancusi and Kandinsky., New York, Feb.-May 2003; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented by him to the nation in 1966. Opened in 1974, it is the capital city's first museum devoted exclusively to modern art. The building is a circular, windowless slab of concrete faced with pink granite., Washington, DC,June-Sept. 2003.
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