Editing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (section)

==== Gail May Engelberg Center for Arts Education ====
[[File:Gugenheim theater from back jeh.jpg|thumb|Peter B. Lewis Theater]]
The Gail May Engelberg Center for Arts Education, completed in 2001, covers {{convert|8200|sqft}} on the lower level of the museum, below the main gallery.<ref name=Tu2002/> It was a gift of the [[Mortimer Sackler|Mortimer D. Sackler]] family and was originally named for them.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |date=March 31, 2010 |title=Mortimer D. Sackler, Arts Patron, Dies at 93 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/business/01sackler.html?_r=0 |access-date=July 17, 2014 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=December 12, 1995 |title=Museum gets gift for arts education |page=2E |work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |agency=New York Times News Service |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19951212&id=6mkaAAAAIBAJ&pg=6896,926560 |access-date=August 22, 2014 |postscript=none}}; and {{cite web |title=Kim Kanatani Will Occupy Newly Created Gail Engelberg Chair in Education |url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/press-release-archive/2001/688-march-12-new-director-of-education |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726183308/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/press-release-archive/2001/688-march-12-new-director-of-education |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |access-date=July 17, 2014 |website=The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation |format=Press release}}</ref> The facility provides classes and lectures about the visual and performing arts and opportunities to interact with the museum's collections and special exhibitions through its labs, exhibition spaces, conference rooms and 266-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater.<ref name=Sackler>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/sackler-center "Sackler Center for Arts Education"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209061825/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/sackler-center|date=February 9, 2014}}, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2012.</ref><ref name=Tu2002/> Following criticism over the Sackler family's involvement in the [[opioid epidemic in the United States]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Small |first=Zachary |date=May 10, 2022 |title=Guggenheim Removes Sackler Name Over Ties to Opioid Crisis |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/arts/design/guggenheim-sackler-name-opioids.html |access-date=October 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=May 10, 2022 |title=Guggenheim Museum Quietly Removes Sackler Name |url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a39957945/guggenheim-museum-removes-sackler-name/ |access-date=October 3, 2022 |website=Town & Country}}</ref> the center was renamed in 2022 for museum trustee Gail May Engelberg,<ref name=Block2022>{{cite web |last=Block |first=Fang |title=The Guggenheim's Center for Arts Education Renamed After a $15 Million Donation |website=Barron's |date=July 21, 2022 |url=https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-guggenheims-center-for-arts-education-renamed-after-a-15-million-donation-01658439391 |access-date=November 19, 2022}}</ref> who along with her husband Alfred Engelberg had donated $15 million to the museum.<ref name=Donnelly2022>{{cite web |last=Donnelly |first=Shannon |title=Palm Beach philanthropy: Gail and Alfred Engelberg commit $15 million to Guggenheim |website=Palm Beach Daily News |date=August 10, 2022 |url=https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/2022/08/10/gail-may-engelberg-center-arts-education-and-formal-dedication-and-naming-ceremony-take-place-novemb/10214105002/ |access-date=November 19, 2022}}</ref>

The basement space looks out onto a sloped driveway outside the southwest corner of the museum.<ref name=AR186/> The Peter B. Lewis Theater is directly beneath the main gallery and contains two levels of seating: an orchestra level and a balcony. There is a coatroom at the balcony level, separated from the balcony seats by a metal partition. The southeast corner of the orchestra level contains a raised wooden stage. The theater's walls contain embedded piers, as well as semicircular window openings.<ref name="NYCL (Interior) pp. 13–14" /> The plaster ceiling contains recessed [[cove lighting]].<ref name=AR188/><ref name="NYCL (Interior) pp. 13–14">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission Interior|1990|ps=.|pp=13–14}}</ref>  When the theater was built, it could be accessed directly from the triangular service core, as well as via the driveway outside the museum.<ref name=AR188/>