Guggenheim in Bilbao Presents The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection

BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection on view from April 12 through September 11, 2011. This is the first large-scale presentation of one of the world’s most significant private collections of contemporary art. Sponsored by Iberdrola and occupying the museum’s second floor and part of the first, the exhibition features approximately 60 works by some 30 artists, encompassing a wide range of mediums with a special emphasis on sculpture and environmental installations. Grounded in an [...]

Guggenheim Presents Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, Germany, and Spain

BILBAO.- Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, 1918–1936 is an exhibition that focuses on the vast transformation in European culture between the world wars. Sponsored by Fundación BBVA, the exhibition is on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from February 22 through May 15, 2011. Rising from the horror of the war, European artists sought a return to order and an embrace of rational organization and enduring values, in contrast with the prewar emphasis on innovation by all [...]

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 [...]

Architect Frank Gehry Likes What He Sees with New Las Vegas Building

LAS VEGAS.- Architect Frank Gehry says he wanted a swirling stainless steel structure he designed for Las Vegas to be unique — to stand out from what he called “the cacophony” of high-rise casinos and condos forming the spine of Sin City’s sprawl. Getting his first look at the nearly complete Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, he declared himself satisfied. “It took my breath away,” he said. “I like the way it fits. I wasn’t trying to [...]

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 [...]

New Frank Gehry Designed Theater Set for 2012 Opening in NYC

NEW YORK, NY.- A nonprofit theater selling tickets for just $20 is bringing one of the world’s most renowned architects to New York’s pricey theater district. An arts center designed by Frank Gehry and originally intended for ground zero will anchor a new complex that will also include apartments with some low-income housing, a hotel, a cafe and a bookstore, the city announced Tuesday. Despite the recession, the $800 million, 59-story Signature Center “is an example of how our city [...]