Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Another Guggenheim near Guernica?

November 6, 2009 by All Art  
Filed under Art Museums & Galleries, Featured

BILBAO, Spain — More than a decade after the Guggenheim opened its Frank Gehry–designed Bilbao branch, proving art museums’ power to transform and uplift depressed communities (and catalyzing a slew of other attempts to do the same), the Spanish branch is considering building a satellite of its own.
The Museo Guggenheim Bilbao is completing feasibility studies for a satellite near the historic town of Guernica, just 40km east of Bilbao. Local and provincial authorities in the Basque Country anticipate that the [...]