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Art historian and curator Miren Arzalluz has been appointed director general of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the institution announced in a statement. She begins her tenure on April 1.
Located north of Bilbao's city centre, on the Nervión River, the Guggenheim never fails to draw the gaze, like a magnetic sculpture that transcends the very landscape. It was designed in 1997 to ...
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has been awarded an Art and Sustainability Fellowship by the Los Angeles-based Getty institution ...
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has this week announced the appointment of Miren Arzalluz as its general director. She will succeed Juan Ignacio Vidarte, who confirmed in May that he will resign from ...
Spanish artist Gala Knörr was eager to announce the news. Her Young Cowboy paintings would be on display at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from July 8 until September 13. “Guys, been playing it cool ...
The Guggenheim opened its museum in Bilbao 25 years ago, turning a struggling industrial town into a cultural metropolis. The building designed by Frank Gehry is now the city's landmark.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will become the first museum to earn the “Queer Destinations Committed” distinction. With the clear goal of promoting the inclusion and recognition of the LGBTQ+ ...
Summer 2022 was the Museum’s most successful since it opened, with 449,477 visitors, attesting to recovery since the pandemic. August was the standout month, with 195,411 people and a daily ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum, which opened in Fort Worth in 1972, and the 25th for Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao, which opened in Spain in 1997. The 25 ...
Environmentalists and locals oppose a Guggenheim project in the Urdaibai nature preserve in Spain, northeast of the museum's Bilbao outpost. The site was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO ...