Taryn Simon's 'Father Country I Do Love You' Opens at Guggenheim with Bottega Veneta Support

Key facts

• Taryn Simon's 'Father Country I Do Love You' opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on Tuesday evening.
• The exhibition is the first monographic exhibition by a photography-based artist in the museum's rotunda and the largest debut of new work ever staged at the Guggenheim.
• The show comprises 42 multipart artworks, called 'chapters,' following an unnamed federal agent through photographs, text, videos, and sculptures.
• Bottega Veneta hosted a dinner at the museum to celebrate the opening, with creative director Louise Trotter in attendance.
• The exhibition is presented against the backdrop of the nation's 250th birthday.
• Simon's father worked for the United States government, but she never learned his full story; his Alzheimer's diagnosis meant she never would.
• Melissa Chiu, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, said the show is 'about history and personal narrative' and comes at a timely moment.
• Mariët Westermann, director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, toasted Simon, Chiu, and Trotter, raising a glass 'to art, and to the creative life, to leadership, and to purpose.'