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Guggenheim Bilbao appoints Miren Arzalluz as director
Currently the director of the Paris Fashion Museum-Palais Galliera, she will take over from Juan Ignacio Vidarte in April 2025
‘We were ahead of our time’: Guggenheim Bilbao’s outgoing director on the factors behind its success—and the challenges on the horizon
Juan Ignacio Vidarte is stepping down from his role after more than 32 years. As he prepares to move on, he tells The Art Newspaper about the “transformative power of culture” and the difficulty of replicating the “Bilbao effect”
Remembering Bill Viola, the artist whose video work expresses the heights and depths of human emotions
The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years
Martha Jungwirth: the Austrian painter looking to Goya and the horrors of Australian bushfires
The octogenarian artist has quietly persevered with her often non-figurative painting—which she insists is not abstract—inspired by everything from domestic appliances to the terrors of Europe’s African colonisation
Remembering Richard Serra, the American sculptor whose monumental works conjure a sense of wonder in the world
"The acerbic and sometimes misanthropic troublemaker who was such a generous champion of younger artists and critics"
Guggenheim picks a leader from NYU Abu Dhabi as its next director—the first woman to head the institution
Mariët Westermann, the first woman to take a leadership role of this magnitude with the museum, will oversee the expansion of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi
Twenty-five years after it opened, artists still find it hard to love the Guggenheim Bilbao
Architect Frank Gehry claimed his design for the Spanish satellite museum was neutral and would not compete with the art within—did he succeed?
Is art censorship on the rise? How freedom of expression is being curbed across the globe
Plus, a striking photograph by Diane Arbus and the Guggenheim Bilbao at 25
Three online shows to see this weekend
From a sweeping survey of Kandinsky to a provocative show on the present day experience of Native American communities
Putting our heads together: the three Guggenheim directors size up post-Covid challenges
With museums in Bilbao and Venice poised to reopen, while New York remains in lockdown, Richard Armstrong, Juan Ignacio Vidarte and Karole Vail talk about weathering the financial crisis
Coronavirus in Spain: Madrid museums including Prado shut but Guggenheim Bilbao remains open
There are currently more than 2,770 coronavirus cases reported in Spain with 64 deaths
Thomas Struth on being taught by Gerhard Richter and how he almost cancelled his Guggenheim Bilbao show
A retrospective of the German photographer opens this week and includes more than 130 works spanning four decades
Controversial animal works pulled from Guggenheim New York will go on show in Bilbao
Contemporary Chinese installations drew 'threats of violence' from animal rights activists last year
From the archive | Twenty years on: how the Guggenheim Bilbao came of age
Against the odds, Spain's US-branded museum has drawn more than 20 million visitors since it opened in 1997
In pictures: six global Guggenheim museums that never happened
As the Guggenheim Bilbao turns 20, we look back at some of the cities that considered, but abandoned, their own branch of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Bilbao covered in a spider’s web and much more for its 20th anniversary
Light show by 59 Productions charts the history of the Spanish museum
Let us now praise famous women : Museums finally find their feminine side
A wave of exhibitions of influential female artists begins this month on both sides of the Atlantic
Calder brings the abstract to life at the Guggenheim Bilbao
Five-decades of art will be on display before travelling on to Madrid
Interview with Thomas Krens: No populist, no colonialist—just loved by business
One year after the acclaimed opening, the director of New York’s Guggenheim talks about the Bilbao Guggenheim, his money-raising and his new expansion plans Spanish commentators admire the building and its success with the public but some chafe at its artistic dependence on the New York museum