From Time Out: Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim is itself a stunning piece of art. Even if your schedule doesn't allow time to view all the collections, you must visit this museum's dramatic white spiral of a building, if only from the outside. In addition to works by Manet, Kandinsky, Picasso and Chagall, the museum owns Peggy Guggenheim's trove of Cubist, Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist works, along with the Panza di Biumo collection of American Minimalist and Conceptual art from the 1960s and '70s. In 1992, the addition of a ten-story tower provided space for a sculpture gallery (with views of Central Park), an auditorium and a café.

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