Category: museums
The Matter of Time – Richard Serra, Guggenheim Bilbao
The largest gallery in Guggenheim Bilbao is the Arcelor Gallery which measures 30 meters wide and 130 meters long (98 ft × 427 ft). The gallery houses Richard Serra’s monumental installation “The Matter of Time” – eight pieces of torqued ellipses made of weathering steel, weighing a total of 1034 ton. That is more than 100…
Inside the Guggenheim Bilbao
This blog posts will cover what we saw inside the Guggenheim museum Bilbao. An earlier post talked about the outside, click here to read. Here is another view of the Simpson-ish model of the building. Let’s take a look around inside. There is a normal-looking, rather warm and cozy, education center. A cafe with a giant…
The Incomparable Guggenheim Bilbao
While visiting Donostia-San Sebastián, we took a day-trip to see the incomparable Guggenheim museum in nearby Bilbao. The express bus route between the two cities is well-run, frequent and comfortable. Much of what we have written below came from the official web site. A model of the building in the museum When the Guggenheim Museum…
Park of Arts, Muzeon, Moscow
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery – closed at 6pm. I was among the last to leave. See earlier posts, for example, here, here, and here for the 20th century collection. The gallery is situated in the Park of Arts – Muzeon (МУЗЕОН) – so this…