The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is recorded as the destination of Andy Warhol’s November 18, 1982 visit to an Yves Klein exhibition. The diary preserves the evening as a sequence of social calls and movement through the museum, culminating in a complete walk up and down its ramp to see the show.

The Opening and Its Social Setting

Warhol first put on black tie and took a cab to a de Menil party for the Yves Klein opening at the museum. There he met Mrs. Klein, who had remarried. Upstairs, he found Fred Hughes with Natasha Grenfell; Jean Stein arrived later, and Warhol noted that he ignored her. The party placed the museum exhibition within an evening of encounters, but the diary records those encounters briskly before turning to the visit itself.

Walking the Exhibition

Warhol then took another cab to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, recording the fare as four dollars. Inside, he walked all the way up the ramp, saw the show, and then walked all the way down, seeing it again on the descent. The account makes the ramp the visit’s defining physical detail: experiencing the exhibition meant traversing the museum in both directions rather than simply noting an arrival or a single viewing.

The Visit in the Diary

The entry closes the museum episode with a return home and a stated bedtime of 10:00. Its sequence—from dressing for the party, through the two cab rides and the full circuit of the ramp, to an early night—gives the opening a measured, practical shape. The museum is represented through this specific act of viewing and movement, with the exhibition’s occasion and Warhol’s route preserved as the evening’s central details.