Bilbao, Spain – The Guggenheim Bilbao is please to present “Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections’, on view until January 8th 2012. Through selected works from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Mus…
Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao Celebrates Roberto Matta’s Centennial
BILBAO, SPAIN – The year 2011 marks the centenary of the birth of Roberto Matta, one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century art because of his importance as a member of the Surrealist group and his enormous influence on the development…
"The Luminous Interval" Exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain – Until September 11, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is showing “The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection”. “The Luminous Interval” presents the work of more than 30 international artists drawn from the D.Daskalopoulos…
125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play
NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher br…
125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play
NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher br…
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao celebrates A Retrospective of Work by Takashi Murakami
BILBAO, SPAIN – From February 17 through May 31 2009, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present the most important retrospective to date of the work of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (b. Tokyo, 1962), one of the most celebrated contemporary …
Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists
New
York, New York – For artists, being included in a museum exhibition
generally
means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious
art
gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are
aiming t…
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao offers the Art Archives of Joaquim Mir
BILBAO, SPAIN – “All I want is for my works to
lighten the heart and flood the eyes and the soul with light.” That was how
Joaquim Mir (Barcelona, 1873—1940), one of the most famous and influential
artists in Catalonian art circles in the earl…