When a judge’s daughter, a painter in the making, saw Jackson Pollock in action at one of his ‘drippings’ in a New York gallery, she knew that her approach to the canvas would never be the same again. With that experience she gave up the easel, knelt

“Young Caipira dressed by Poiret.” These words of her second husband, the modernist poet Oswald de Andrade, sums up the contradictions that surround Tarsila do Amaral: a woman of the world, born into a wealthy family of landowners and brought up with

In the wake of the enormous success of a similar anthology held in its New York base, the Guggenheim Museum brings to Bilbao the oeuvre of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist and mystic who, inspired by her devotion to theosophy, can perhaps be consid

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Gego. Measuring Infinity, a major retrospective offering a fully integrated view of the work by German-Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), also known as Gego, and her disti

María Marco   The Japanese artist has created a body of work that may look innocent but is loaded with a complex universe of obsessions, fears, and traumas.

“Dissolution and accumulation; propagation and separation; particulate obliteration and unseen reverberations from the universe—these were to become the foundations of my art, and they were already taking shape at this time.” Yayoi Kusama. Japanese a

Just like Mr. Pump in Hergé’s cartoons, Norman Foster has a true passion for automobiles, a devotion which in his architecture has made him pursue beauty and high technology in equal shares. Making the world an accomplice in his vision, the British a

Foster in Bilbao

Norman Foster   The extensive exhibition curated by Norman Foster at Bilbao’s Guggenheim celebrates the influence wielded by the automobile on modern culture.

On view through 18 September at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao is an exhibition curated by Norman Foster that throws light on the artistic facet of the automobile. ‘Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture’ considers affinities between technology and art, s

Borrowing entirely from the New York and Venice collections, the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao will until 21 August be hosting an “ardent celebration” of the vast pictorial work of Jean Dubuffet. Devoted to his family’s wine wholesale business after a

The years leading up to the 1920s were marked by terrible tragedies, a pandemic, and a world war, traumas that awakened in society a desire to embrace life and break with the past. The decade was marked by an explosion of creativity and freedom that

Ever since Solomon R. Guggenheim traveled to Europe with Baroness Hilla Rebay for a guide and met Wassily Kandinsky in his Bauhaus classes, the wealthy industrialist’s foundation has been closely tied to the oeuvre of the Russian master. Now the Basq

Guggenheim Bilbao   As a pioneer of abstraction and a renowned aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is among the foremost artistic innovators of the early twentieth century. In his endeavor to free painting from its

On view through 10 January at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, which has organized the exhibition in collaboration with the Barbican Centre in London, is the first retrospective show ever to be offered in Spain on the American abstract expressionist

Scheduled to open at Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum on 2 October, and to stay there until 19 January, ‘Thomas Struth’ is the most extensive showing of the career of the acclaimed German photographer born in 1954. More than 130 works – including a number

There are ‘fox artists’ and there are ‘hedgehog artists.’ The former go about leapfrogging, they know many things; the latter know one big thing, limiting themselves to a single discovery which they devote their entire careers to. To this second cate

The Guggenheim of Bilbao, now 20 years old, is perhaps the most influential building of the latest two decades, not so much because it is Frank Gehry’s greatest work but because it represents a way of transforming and activating the image of cities t

Though it was hard for them to escape the long shadows of the men who were their husbands and often also mentors, there were not a few women artists at the Bauhaus who had voices of their own. The most outstanding among them – both because of the fie

Francisco Javier San Martín   Louise Bourgeois was a retrospective artist. Acknowledgment of her by her equals in the world of art came when she was already sixty years old, and popularity in the sphere of the general public, at ninety. As if in service of poetic justice, when re

Julia Ramírez Blanco   The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao proposes a thematic approach to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, unique artist of primitivism, pop, and blackness.

Norman Foster is the first recipient of the BIA Award of Bilbao Bizkaia Architecture, a platform recently created by the Basque Country and Navarre Institute of Architects. The prize acknowledges the role that the Metro of Bilbao has played in regene

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