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  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Frank Gehry - Great Buildings Online
The new Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry was probably the most often mentioned new building of 1998 and 1999 in architecture circles.
The abstract, free-form components of this style were present in the early Gehry House, and a similarly sleek curvaceous cladding was displayed in the sculptural fish of the Fishdance Restaurant.
Associated with the Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, building by Frank Lloyd Wright.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Guggenheim_Bilbao.html   (160 words)

  
  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The exhibitions in the museum itself change often, but most exposed work concerns 20th century art; traditional paintings and sculptures are often in a minority compared to installations and electronic forms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao   (431 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Guggenheim Museum, Art Museum (Art Museums) - Encyclopedia
Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular building (1959) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1992 the Guggenheim opened a 10-story limestone addition in the rear of its original structure and also began operating a branch in the city's SoHo district.
The gigantic, spectacularly curving, titanium-sheathed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry and inaugurated in 1997, is also under its aegis.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GuggenheM.html   (257 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - The Collection
The Guggenheim collection online premiered in April 2001 with a selection of works of art from the New York museum's holdings.
Currently representing 169 artists, the collection online encompasses both the classic and the new—from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, a 1998–99 sculpture by Robert Gober—striking a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole.
In the winter of 2001, we added almost 100 works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, in the summer of 2003 we added works commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, which will soon be followed by highlights from the collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
www.guggenheimcollection.org   (159 words)

  
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in The NYC Insider: an Insider's Guide to New York City
When Solomon Guggenheim first opened his art holdings to the public in 1939, the collection was called the "Museum of Non-Objective Painting." It was originally housed in a former car showroom, which had been given an elegant air via grey pleated velour wall coverings and classical music emanating from a phonograph.
The rotunda of Thannhauser 4 is a particularly nice spot from which to consider the museum's design, since from this area you can see both the large and small rotunda elements, the oval supports, and, through the window, the wonderful setting that was chosen for the museum.
The Guggenheim Museum is the youngest structure ever to be designated a New York City landmark.
www.theinsider.com /nyc/museums/1solomon.htm   (644 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
As in the Merzbau [by Kurt Schwitters], the only true "inhabitant" of the Guggenheim is the architect himself, he who wishes to see himself reflected in an endless work and offer his operation as the only spectacle.
The museum is a long way from his early work, including his own residence in Santa Monica, California, but is indicative of Gehry's development from the 1960's.
Much has been written about the Guggenheim Bilabo (enough that it is known by the city it resides in) but the appeal and impact of the building is speechless.
www.archidose.org /Jul99/071299.html   (633 words)

  
 Thais: Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim, planned by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), broke away from the dicates of the trends of modern architectural movements and represented the most poetically linked of all his works.
The inside space is a continual upwards movement using a six-floor spiral with galleries which spread out from the first ramp indicated by a large water fountain in the central room on the ground floor.
At the different levels the various sectors of the exhibition are divided by separating elements which receive external light from a continual series of glass window slits, the main font of illumination, which introduce an interesting co-efficiency of variability linked to the alternating of day and night.
www.thais.it /guggenheim/default_uk.htm   (514 words)

  
 World-Wide Web Resources - Museums and Exhibits
The Brooklyn Museum, pictures from the museum's collection of Ancient Egyptian art, and the Arts of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas.
Museum of Broadcast Communications, pop culture and latter-day U.S. history through the lens of radio and television.
Museum of the City of San Francisco, features reports on the earthquakes of 1906 and 1989, the Oakland firestorm, and a chronology of San Francisco World War II-related events.
www.uky.edu /Subject/museums.html   (687 words)

  
 Museums and Museum Sites
The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the recognition of women in the arts, including a tour of their on-line galleries.
Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library is an extraordinary complex of buildings in the heart of New York City.
At least one museum is added per day, currently there are at least 56 museums with their own pages listed for Sweden alone, and the number in the US is more than in the rest of the world combined.
www.umich.edu /~hartspc/histart/mother/museums.html   (3621 words)

  
 Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century.
Opened in 1951 by the niece of Solomon R Guggenheim, wealthy American industrialist and art collector, the museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is owned and operated by the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, which also operates the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Guggenheim-Hermitage Las Vegas.
www.guggenheim-venice.it /english   (192 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Guggenheim Museum refers to any of several museums worldwide created and run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York
More information on the Guggenheims can be found under Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, or the individual museums.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guggenheim_Museum   (122 words)

  
 Deutsche Guggenheim
Its simple, pure interior is in keeping with other museums designed by Gluckman, such as the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, established in 1937, is based on the private collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim with its focus on "non-objective" art.
The site in Germany establishes a special connection to the historical roots of the Guggenheim Foundation, inasmuch as the Guggenheim family originally came from Germany and Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Guggenheim Museum, emigrated to New York from what was at that time Prussia.
www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com /guggenheim/e   (550 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Guggenheim regroups: The Story Behind the Cutbacks: in financial crisis, and with its downtown NYC expansion plan deferred or defunct, the Guggenheim museum continues to explore ambitious new global projects.
The Guggenheim's New Clothes.(Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao upgrades to Enterasys Networks X-Pedition 8000 multilayer switch routers; High-availability Gigabit Ethernet solution improves network efficiency and supports video streaming plans.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/GuggenheM1.asp   (587 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z (Guggenheim Museum Publications)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
C is for Cézanne (and Chagall, Cornell, collaboration, and cultural activism) in the revised, redesigned handbook of the Guggenheim Museum's New York collection.
The signed entries, by Spector's fellow Guggenheim curators as well as independent art historians, explain the illustrated works and also give sufficient biocritical information for the intelligent lay reader to begin to understand the artist.
That said, the Guggenheim remains a quirky institution, and it shows here: Abstraction is covered in all its iterations, while photography seems to have begun in the last couple of decades.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810969300?v=glance   (791 words)

  
 Art Museum Links
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic.
The Museum was the only scheduled site for this exhibition in the United States, between its 1996 stay in Vienna and its next stop in Singapore.
The core collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is built around abstract artists from the early twentieth century, such as Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian, whose paintings expressed the joy and wonder of new realms of thought and experience articulated through a revolutionary visual language.
www.coastvillage.com /gallery/links.htm   (619 words)

  
 Plots & Plans: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Frank Gehry Plan for Lower Manhattan's waterfront   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Unfortunately, the museum, which was encountering financial difficulties, abandoned this ambitious plan at the end of 2002.
In 1999, the Guggenheim Museum, flush with world-wide praise for its new museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Gehry, and under the very dynamic leadership of its director, Thomas Krens, proposed an immense mixed-use project for the former Manhattan Landing site that would be designed by Gehry.
The museum's exhibition on the proposed downtown Gehry-designed museum is overwhelming in its inclusion of hundreds of preparatory studies, sketches and models and it includes a very large model of the present design as well as a very large model of Lower Manhattan with the museum project model in place, in scale, shown below.
www.thecityreview.com /gehry.html   (2543 words)

  
 VEGAS.com Attractions: Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
The result: the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum at the Venetian, whose gallery houses masterpieces that have traveled the world.
Once housed at the Armory Chamber in the Kremlin Museum, Moscow, the collection is made up of a wide range of fine, decorative, and applied arts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Las Vegas exhibit will be held simultaneously with the "Russia!" exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
www.vegas.com /attractions/on_the_strip/hermitage.html?f=m0at&t=stripat   (332 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Guggenheim museum chief resigns
The museum has branches in Berlin, Venice, and Bilbao in Spain - but a branch which opened in Las Vegas in 2001 was forced to close after 15 months, while plans for a museum in Lower Manhattan were shelved in 2002.
Museum president, William Mack, has been named acting chairman.
The Guggenheim Museum, which was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in 1959 on New York's Upper East Side and features around 10,000 works.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4194499.stm   (296 words)

  
 The Venetian - Guggenheim Art Museum - Hermitage Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum is managed and operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum is under the patronage of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Dr. Mikhail E. Shwydkoi.
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum was conceived as a venue for the presentation of exhibitions based on the collections of the Guggenheim and Hermitage museums.
www.venetian.com /guggenheim/hermitage.cfm   (570 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern art museum located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
The structure, designed by Frank Gehry's architectural firm and opened to the public in 1997, immediately vaulted to prominence as one of the world's most spectacular post-modern buildings.
His most famous work, and the clearest expression of his style, is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
www.magicaljourneys.com /Spain/spain-interest-bilbao-guggenheim.html   (461 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Visit Us
Guggenheim Museum - Visit Us Please know that portions of the museum are currently closed during the restoration process.
Our latest podcast highlighting education programs at the
Guggenheim Museum is now available, visit our podcast page to listen.
www.guggenheim.org /visit_us   (38 words)

  
 Nouvel's Guggenheim Museum in Rio Blocked by Brazilian Court
While not, in all likelihood, the final word in what is becoming a back-and-forth between the community of Rio, the city mayor, and the Guggenheim Foundation, the decision by a Brazilian court to block the construction of the planned museum could potentially spell the end to the high-profile commission for the French Architect.
Following protests by the public regarding the $250 million dollar price tag, of which Jean Nouvel was to receive $12 million, the court decided the planned museum was too much of a luxury for a city in dire need of funds for education, health care and other social programs.
For more information on the plan for the museum, see also "New Guggenheim Museum Planned in Rio" an earlier article regarding the vision for the new plan.
www.builderspace.com /news/rioguggenheim.html   (284 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Frank O. Gehry
It turns out to be a purely sculptural element of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a building of such brilliant innovation and esthetic triumph that it has been called a twentieth century Chartres.
Both of these exhibits are from the Guggenheim roster of touring attractions, a sort of Barnum and Bailey approach to the dissemination of art.
The view entering the Guggenheim from the front is deceptive; it presents a friendlier scale than the massive building might otherwise offer.
www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/Bilbao.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Arts and Culture - refdesk.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Information on the artists includes dates, states, methods, biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of 20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of auction lots sold and unsold of their works.
Approximately 8000 images of the museum's holdings are available for view along with the descriptive text found by the works when they are displayed in the physical gallery.
Van Gogh Museum - The Van Gogh Museum is located on the Museumplein in Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum.
www.refdesk.com /culture.html   (1622 words)

  
 Makeover for Manhattan's famous Guggenheim - Arts - www.smh.com.au
After 45 years the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright's soaring spiral that is one of Manhattan's greatest tourist attractions, will undergo a major facelift.
Krens has set his sights on building other Guggenheims around the world using world-class architects as part of the attraction, as he did with the Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry.
In the planning stages is a $US130 million ($190 million) museum on Maua Pier in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, by the Paris architect Jean Nouvel.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/15/1087244911927.html   (459 words)

  
 Art and Photography Museums, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design Jewish Museum International Center of Photography Museum of the City of New York El Museo del Barrio Goethe House National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
NYC Children's Museums: There are many museums in New York where kids can learn and play.
Free Museum Hours and Times: Whether or not you are a starving artist, you can see art for FREE at museums citywide.
www.ny.com /museums   (223 words)

  
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
The Guggenheim Museum, located on a section of Fifth Avenue known as Museum Mile, is housed in one of the most unique buildings in New York City.
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the museum is shaped roughly like a teacup or an upside down terraced hill.
Exploring the Guggenheim is extremely enjoyable, but a floor plan is a necessity.
www.ny.com /museums/guggenheim.html   (226 words)

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