“I look at it every morning on my walk to work,” says Manuel Cirauqui, the head curator at the Guggenheim Bilbao, when I describe the optical illusion to him. “It seems to move, as if it has scales.” ...
Assembled beneath the rippling titanium skin of the Guggenheim Bilbao is a new display of art objects. Only this time, the objects in question weren’t created as art, but design. ‘Motion. Autos, Art, ...
Canadian architect Frank Gehry was commissioned to design it, on a site on the riverside. From the start, the Guggenheim Bilbao project faced criticism, in great part due to the cost - $100m for ...
Frank Gehry is a famed Canadian-American architect. Celebrated as one the most important ... Some of his other best-known projects include the elegant, titanium Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the ...
In the digital realm, the guggenheim-bilbao.eus website recorded a total of 2.893.452 visits and 10.850.342 page views in 2024. The Museum continues to expand its community and influence on social ...
1997 Three men have attempted to bomb the new Guggenheim Museum Bilbao disguised as gardeners working on Jeff Koons' giant Puppy sculpture. The plot was foiled by two Spanish policemen, one of whom ...
For the first time in the history of architecture a true logarithmic ... Ever since Frank Lloyd Wright’s controversial Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum began to take shape on upper Fifth Avenue ...
In this intimate, one-on-one conversation, Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at Parsons ... Street in New York City, the ...