Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts

Lorente, J. Pedro

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“…Therefore, it is an excellent idea to put outdoors great works from the permanent collection, including some other eye‐catching examples like the Wish Tree for Bilbao by Yoko Ono, the stainless steel sculpture Tall Tree & The Eye by Anis Kapoor, or a large intervention entitled Fog Sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya, consisting of burners activated at dusk (López‐Remiro, 2009). A well‐received strategy that is mimicked all over the world, sometimes using very similar pieces: indeed, further versions of the spider by Louise Bourgeois have been purchased by different museums and some have also placed them by the entrance emulating the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; for example, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, or the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (Lorente, 2019).…”

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Reviewing the “Bilbao effect” inside and beyond the Guggenheim: Its coming of age in sprawling cultural landscapes

Lorente

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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Invented by journalists, the “Bilbao effect” label has no clear meaning, but it undoubtedly refers to outwardly radiating waves of influence beyond the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Its architecture and urban impact, with trickle down economic returns, has drawn international attention and many emulators. Its museological novelties have inspired great changes in Spanish museums and in Basque cultural policies. However, the external effect of this institution beyond its headquarters should be tracked most particularly along the Abandoibarra district, which is now a thriving curatorial landscape, typifying an outdoors version of Svetlana Alpers's “museum effect.” Are we experiencing a paradigm shift? Outliving all sort of setbacks, the epitome of postmodern museums remains faithful to itself and new kinds of cultural clusters are being promoted beyond it. The current climate crisis has called into question previous assumptions of success based on massive international tourism, which is perhaps unsustainable. But the cultural district of Bilbao is booming and expanding down the Nervión river.

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Section: Curatorial Reconsiderations Inside and Beyond The Guggenheim...mentioning

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Reviewing the “Bilbao effect” inside and beyond the Guggenheim: Its coming of age in sprawling cultural landscapes

Lorente

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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Public Art and Museums in Cultural Districts

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Reviewing the “Bilbao effect” inside and beyond the Guggenheim: Its coming of age in sprawling cultural landscapes

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