Museum report·New York
Taryn Simon fills Guggenheim rotunda with vast FBI-agent investigation
The Guggenheim opened Taryn Simon's Father Country I Do Love You on 18 September, an installation filling the entire rotunda with photographs, text, video and sculpture built around nearly a decade of interviews with an unnamed federal agent.

The project, Simon's largest and most personal to date, unfolds across 42 chapters and more than a thousand photographs, tracing the agent's career through espionage investigations, political scandals and acts of violence, alongside figures caught in their wake. Visitors choose their own paths through the spiralling installation, which the museum timed to the 250th anniversary of the United States as an alternative perspective on national commemoration. The work blends conceptual art with investigative reporting and explores power, truth and memory. It runs through 14 March 2027.


