Jeff Koons, Puppy

You have to be here

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August 28th 2014
Guggenheim Bilbao has been on my wish list since it opened in 1997 and I was right to want to come here. It is an amazing building - an art work in itself - and both the Gehry design and some of its signature pieces really have to be experienced spatially. Persuading the Guggenheim Foundation to build the museum in what had become a depressed former port city was an absolute genius move. I don't t ... read more

Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more