The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is a monument to modernism - and the most European of American museums. As Europe fell apart after World War II, the center of art shifted to America, and New York became the new center of the modern world. The symbol of this era became the spectacular Guggenheim Museum building, which sits like a spaceship on Fifth Avenue. The painter Julie Mehretu, who lives in New York and Berlin, has a special relationship to this building: her first solo exhibition in New York was shown here. Mehretu has Ethiopian roots. She is known for her large-scale abstract painting and is considered one of the most important painters of the present.