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Aug 15, 2024 · At the heart of ‘The Union’ is the titular spy agency that recruits Mike from his day-to-day life as an unassuming construction site worker. It is a made-up secret service group created by scriptwriters Joe Barton and David Guggenheim, which plays an essential role within the narrative.
Apr 2, 2013 · David Guggenheim broke into the business in February 2010 by selling the spec script Safe House which was produced and has grossed $208M worldwide. Since that time, Guggenheim has sold two more spec…
Oct 16, 2017 · 16 October 2017. Twenty years ago, Bilbao was scarred by acts of terrorism and failing industry. The city decided to gamble on Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum. Not only did it help to save...
A gallery owner in Europe and then New York, Karl Nierendorf collected and promoted the work of now well-known avant-garde artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Learn about the history of the Guggenheim Foundation, from the 1920s to the present.
- The Beginning of Bilbao
- From Skepticism to Celebration
- Charting The ‘Bilbao Effect’
- No Repeat Performances
The Guggenheim Bilbao was the result of a partnership between the Guggenheim museum in New York and the governments of the city of Bilbao and the Basque region. The project was masterminded by the Guggenheim’s maverick and controversial director, Thomas Krens, who was looking for ways to expand the museum and stabilize its finances. Along with Bilb...
Prior to opening, there was widespread skepticism about the project, especially in New York. The Austrian-born curator Max Hollein, now director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco but then a young staffer at the Guggenheim, recalls: “Three years before opening, very few people thought it would be a success. Trustees, the media, people in the...
Since the Bilbao, a raft of museum openings and massive extensions across the world have hired high-profile architects and sought to drive tourism, regeneration, or other social agendas. These include, to name only a few, Santiago Calatrava’s Milwaukee Art Museum, Gehry’s MARTa Herford in Germany and LVMH museum in Paris, Daniel Libeskind’s Denver ...
Meanwhile, the Guggenheim itself has found the model hard to repeat. Its branches in SoHo, Berlin, and Las Vegas have closed, while ambitious plans for a new outpost in Helsinki were caught up in local politics and abandoned last year. Feasibility studies in cities from Taiwan to Guadalajara came to nothing, while the hugely ambitious Guggenheim Ab...
May 18, 2022 · Canadian-born Gehry was predominantly known for expressive works in his adopted home city of Los Angeles when he won a competition organised in 1992 by The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation...
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Oct 6, 2021 · In 1991, the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum began as a strategic project for the Basque Country and the city of Bilbao. Local and regional public institutions agreed to an ambitious plan to change the city from an industrial economy to a new kind of economy with different services, which would attract more tourism.
