New York, NY, Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Ted Lipman, Chief Executive Officer of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, announced the inauguration of an initiative to advance the achievements of and expand the discourse on contemporary Chinese art. Made possible by a major grant to the Guggenheim from The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, which focuses much of its philanthropy on Chinese and Buddhist visual art and culture, the new program will allow for the commissioning of artworks by artists who were born in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Macao.