Art from the Collections of “la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA on view at the Guggenheim

BILBAO.- From January 31 to September 2, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be hosting The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of ”la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA, a superb selection of works belonging to two outstanding contemporary art collections that represent the most significant tendencies and movements spanning the second half of the twentieth century to the present, such as Dau al Set, the El Paso group, the Vancouver School and the Dusseldorf School. Throughout the Museum’s third floor, The Inverted Mirror [...]

Guggenheim announces retrospective devoted to the sixty-year career of John Chamberlain

NEW YORK, NY.- From February 24 to May 13, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumpresents John Chamberlain: Choices, a major retrospective comprising approximately ninety-five works by the important American artist and the first U.S. museum presentation of his work since 1986. The exhibition examines Chamberlain’s development over his sixty-year career, exploring the shifts in scale, materials, and techniques informed by the assemblage, or collage, process that has been central to his working method. Taking as a point of departure his 1971 Guggenheim [...]

Exhibition of selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection Part II opens

BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection II , the second exhibition in a series that began in 2009 and will continue until 2012. This series aims to show the public selected works from the Bilbao collection, put them in context and thus offer a detailed overview of the collection’s focus and orientation. The show, curated by Petra Joos, Deputy Director for Museum Activities at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, explores the work of a series of influential [...]

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao shows Georg Baselitz’ “Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale”

BILBAO.- Visitors to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao have the opportunity to see Georg Baselitz’s work Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale, 2008, considered by critics to be one of his finest achievements and a masterwork of European painting. Installed in gallery 103 and part of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection since 2010, this work is currently on view within the exhibition Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection II, which will open to the public on November 15. One of the most prominent artists [...]

Ground Broken on Frank Gehry’s $81 Million Underground Utility Space at Philadelphia Art Museum

PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It’s not typical for a loading dock to be the celebrated subject of a groundbreaking ceremony, but Frank Gehry is not your typical architect. Gehry joined more than 100 dignitaries, philanthropists and art aficionados Tuesday at the The Philadelphia Museum of Art to mark the start of construction on his 68,000-square-foot, $81 million underground utility space. A vaulted hallway that has been closed to the public is seen after a groundbreaking ceremony at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in [...]

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance at the Guggenheim in Bilbao

BILBAO.- From November 6, 2010, until March 13, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. The exhibition was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in [...]

The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting from the Stadel Museum at the Guggenheim

BILBAO.- From October 7, 2010 to January 23, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting from the Städel Museum, a splendid selection of masterpieces from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, one of Europe’s most important institutions. The Museum owns a unique collection of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the so-called Golden Age, the period of greatest Dutch hegemony. Installed in the galleries of the Museum’s third floor, and sponsored by Fundación [...]

Guggenheim Announces “Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936

NEW YORK, NY.- Rising from the ruins and horror of World War I, European art and culture returned to the classical past, seeking tranquility, order, and enduring values. Artists turned away from prewar experimentalism and embraced the heroic human figure and rational organization. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 is the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the vast transformation in European culture between the world wars. With approximately 150 works by more [...]

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Shows a Selection of Works of Art from Its Own Collection

BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection , the first in a cycle scheduled to take place over the next three years and organized to offer an in-depth perspective of the most significant works in the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by placing them in context and thereby facilitating a comprehensive vision of the Collection’s focus. Curated by Petra Joos, Director of Museum Activities at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, this exhibition illustrates major [...]

The Guggenheim in Bilbao Exhibits 60 Metal Sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg

BILBAO.- Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao underscores the spirit of the artist’s excitement about Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece and its transformative presence in Bilbao. In response to the building’s scale, larger and more elaborate Gluts have been added to the exhibition, displaying not only their majesty and monumentality, but also the dynamic between the sculptural and painterly that defined this great American artist. Almost two years after the death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008, the Guggenheim [...]

Studies on Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Expansion in Urdaibai Presented

NEW YORK, NY.- The results of preliminary studies analyzing the critical factors for success for the proposed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao expansion project in Urdaibai were presented December 16 at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The first stage of feasibility studies, carried out in 2009, identified and analyzed a number of issues, including the new museum’s conceptual model and curatorial program; the legal, urban, environmental, and geological conditions of the chosen site; the [...]

In the Arts, Bigger Buildings May Not Be Better

Within months of its opening in 1997, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao had given the language a new term and the world a new way of looking at culture. The “Bilbao effect,” many came to believe, was the answer to what ailed cities everywhere — it was a way to lure tourists and economic development — and a potential boon to cultural institutions. Municipal governments and arts groups were soon pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into larger, flashier exhibition [...]