Editing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (section)

==Exhibitions==
The museum houses "large-scale, site-specific works and installations by contemporary artists", such as [[Richard Serra]]'s {{convert|100|m|ft|abbr=on}} ''Snake'', and displays the work of Basque artists, "as well as housing a selection of works" from the foundation's modern art collection.<ref name=Priceless/> In 1997, the museum opened with "The Guggenheim Museums and the Art of This Century", a 300-piece overview of 20th-century art from [[Cubism]] to new media art. Most pieces came from the Guggenheim's permanent collection, but the museum also acquired paintings by [[Willem de Kooning]], [[Mark Rothko]] and [[Clyfford Still]] and commissioned new works by [[Francesco Clemente]], [[Anselm Kiefer]], [[Jenny Holzer]] and [[Richard Serra]].<ref name=Riding1/>

The exhibitions change often; the museum generally hosts thematic exhibitions, centered for example on [[Culture of China|Chinese]] or Russian art.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} Traditional paintings and sculptures are a minority compared to installations and electronic forms. The highlight of the collection, and its only permanent exhibit, is ''[[The Matter of Time]]'' (incorporating an earlier work, ''Snake''), a series of [[weathering steel]] sculptures designed by Serra, which is housed in the {{convert|130|m|abbr=on}} Arcelor Gallery (formerly known as the Fish Gallery but renamed in 2005 for the steel manufacturer that sponsored the project).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bird's-eye rendering of the Arcelor Gallery with layout of installation "The Matter of Time" |url=http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews4-13-2.asp |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=www.artnet.com}}</ref> The collections usually highlight [[Avant-garde art]], 20th century abstraction, and non-objective art. When the museum announced the 2011 exhibition "The Luminous Interval", a show of artwork belonging to Greek businessman [[Dimitris Daskalopoulos]], who is also a museum trustee, this met with criticism of, among other things, too much curatorial power for a serious benefactor.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=2010-12-16 |title=Guggenheim Defends Show of Trustee's Art |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/arts/design/17vogel.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2005, [[Olivier berggruen|Olivier Berggruen]] and Ingrid Pfeiffer curated a retrospective of [[Yves Klein]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-17 |title=Área de prensa del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao |url=https://prensa.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=prensa.guggenheim-bilbao.eus |language=es-ES}}</ref>
In 2012 [["David Hockney: A Bigger Picture" in Bilbao|David Hockney's exhibition]] drew over 290,000 visitors to the museum.
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File:Guggenheim popular art detail.jpg|''Tulips'' by [[Jeff Koons]]
File:A Bibao - Puppy - de Jeff Koons.jpg|''Puppy'' by [[Jeff Koons]] in front of the museum
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