MoFunny for

Sunday

April 18, 2027

Trivia question....

Who designed the Guggenheim Museum?

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Consider these words of wisdom....

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. -- Madeleine L'Engle, "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. -- Benjamin Franklin

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. -- Tom Thompson

I bet ya' didn't know....

A cat's sense of smell is extimated to be approximately one hundred thousand times more sensitive than that of a human.

During the Revolution, Benedict Arnold, a West Point commander, attempted to turn the fort over to the British. His plot was discovered, and he fled behind British lines.

Things that make you go Hmmm....

Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?

Jokes & stories....

Joke

Two newlyweds go up to the mountains for a romantic winter vacation. When they get there, the guy goes out to chop some wood. When he gets back, he says, "Honey, my hands are freezing!"

She says, "Well put them here between my legs and that will warm them up."

After lunch he goes back out to chop some more wood and comes back and says again, "Man! My hands are really freezing!"

She says again, "Well put them here between my legs and warm them up."

He does, and again that warms him up.

After dinner, he goes out one more time to chop wood for the night. When he returns, he again says, "Honey, my hands are really freezing!"

She looks at him and says, "For crying out loud, don't your ears ever get cold?"

Joke

A man by the name of Tates invents the very first compass. It was a very significant achievement, but alas, it proved not to be too reliable and many people who relied on it had to have a search party rescue them. It did however, cause a saying which is very much in use today to be developed.....

He who has a Tates is lost.

One-liner

Meet regularly with someone who has vastly different views than you.

Joke

A.M.A. Update

American Medical Association researchers have made a remarkable discovery. It seems that some patients needing blood transfusions may benefit from receiving chicken blood rather than human blood.

It tends to make the men cocky and the women lay better.

Joke

Bill and Bob, longtime golfing buddies, were involved in a match-play contest with the score "all-square" at the 18th tee.
Bill slices his tee shot way left, and the ball finally stops on the cart path. Meanwhile, Bob smashes his first shot straight down the middle.
"Oh well," says Bill, "I should get a free drop from there."
"Heck no," says Bob, "We play the ball as it lies."
And so Bill did.
After dropping his opponent on the middle of the fairway, Bill took the golf cart to his lie on the concrete path. Sparks fly from the cart path, as Bill makes a few aggressive practice swings.
Finally, Bill hits the ball off the cart path, leaving a miraculous shot only 3 feet from the pin.
As the two meet in the fairway, Bob comments, "That was a great shot...what club did you use?"
"Your 6 iron," says Bill.

Red Neck

You might be a redneck if…

You use your fishing license as a form of I.D.

Joke

One day at the veterinarian's office where I take my cat, a man and the receptionist were verbally sparring.

After a few moments a technician came to her co-worker's defense.

"Sir...Do you know what happens to aggressive males in this office???"

Joke

When I was six months pregnant with my third child, my three year old came into the room when I was just getting ready to get into the shower. She said, "Mommy, you are getting fat!"

I replied, "Yes, honey, remember Mommy has a baby growing in her tummy"

"I know," she replied, but what's growing in your butt?"

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Trivia answer....

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was incorporated in 1937, and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, as it was then known, was established two years later. The museum—which assumed temporary residence in a former automobile showroom on East 54th Street in New York—took as its basis the radical new forms of art being developed by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian.

The insistence of philanthropist Solomon Guggenheim and artist-adviser Hilla Rebay on a wholly new kind of art seen in a wholly new kind of space set the institution on its unique path. The first permanent home for the museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He envisioned a building that not only broke the rectilinear grid of Manhattan but also shattered existing notions of what a museum could be. He conceived of its curving, continuous space as a "temple of spirit" where viewers could foster a new way of looking. Named the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in honor of its founder, the building opened in 1959, drawing huge crowds and stirring considerable controversy. It has never lost its power to excite and provoke, standing today as one of the great works of architecture produced in the twentieth century.

Peggy Guggenheim, a niece of Solomon, donated her Venetian home, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal, and the art collection housed in it to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in the mid-1970s. After her death, in 1979, the foundation took over full responsibility for the palazzo and the artworks, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection—with its masterpieces ranging in style from Cubism and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism—has become one of the most respected and visited cultural attractions in Venice. The Venice and New York museums together formed the basis for the institution's international orientation.

Under the leadership of Thomas Krens, its director since 1988, the Guggenheim has increased the scope of its operations. In 1992, the Frank Lloyd Wright building was restored and supplemented by a new tower, adding considerable overall exhibition space while allowing Wright's great rotunda and the monitor building to be seen in all their splendor. At the same time, the Guggenheim Museum SoHo was opened in downtown Manhattan. In 1997, the institution expanded its international presence with the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Built by the Basque government and managed by the Guggenheim, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is part of a far-reaching plan to transform Bilbao into a major metropolitan center. The building, designed by Frank Gehry, has been hailed by critics worldwide as an architectural masterpiece. The result of a partnership between the Guggenheim and Deutsche Bank, the Deutsche Guggenheim is an intimate exhibition space on the historic Unter den Linden.

In 2001, a site designed by Rem Koolhas opened in Las Vegas: the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, conceived as a "jewel box" for the presentation of exhibitions based on the collections of the Guggenheim and Hermitage museums. In autumn of the same year, the Sackler Center for Arts Education opened to the public. A 8,200 square-feet education facility, the center comprises Studio-Art, Computer, and Multimedia Labs, the New Media Theater, an exhibition gallery, the Resource Center, the Conference Room, and education offices. It also includes the existing Peter B. Lewis Theater, part of Frank Lloyd Wright's original architectural design for the building.

Looking to the future, the foundation has proposed the Guggenheim Museum New York, a new facility to be located in Lower Manhattan. Designed by Frank Gehry, it would feature galleries for special exhibitions and for works from the permanent collection as well as centers for arts and technology, architecture and design, and education. Also on the horizon, the foundation has announced plans for a new Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro. Designed by celebrated French architect Jean Nouvel, the museum will be built on the site of the Mauá Pier on Guanabara Bay.