Category: museums
Random photos #276 – 285
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). random photo #276 – books –
El Jardín de Las Delicias, El Bosco, Prado
We spent a few days in Madrid after Donostia-San Sebastián. The Museo Nacional del Prado had just put on a special exhibition that marked the 5th centenary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch – aka El Bosco. This represents the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled. Each ticket entitled one to enter
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