Guggenheim inspires Greenstone Gallery

Ken Hansen’s idea of a hotel art gallery at the eco-friendly Greenstone Inn in Newport’s Nye Beach was inspired by a visit to the Guggenheim Museum of modern art in New York city. (Photo by Rick Beasley)

Three floors of eye-opening art greet guests at the Greenstone Inn, the new, all-green hotel in Newport’s Nye Beach area whose gallery was inspired by the forward-looking Guggenheim Museum.

The idea emerged from the fertile mind of artist Ken Hansen, whose own visit to the cylindrical Mecca of modern art in New York City stirred the future gallery operator’s vivid imagination.

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