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Putting our heads together: the three Guggenheim directors size up post-Covid challenges

With museums in Bilbao and Venice poised to reopen, while New York remains in lockdown, Richard Armstrong, Juan Ignacio Vidarte and Karole Vail talk about weathering the financial crisis

Nancy Kenney
29 May 2020
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From left, Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; Karole Vail, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection; and Juan Ignacio Vidarte, director of the Guggenheim Bilbao Armstrong: David Heald, © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Vail: Matteo De Fina, © Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Vidarte: Erika Ede
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30 September 1998

Interview with Thomas Krens: No populist, no colonialist—just loved by business

One year after the acclaimed opening, the director of New York’s Guggenheim talks about the Bilbao Guggenheim, his money-raising and his new expansion plans Spanish commentators admire the building and its success with the public but some chafe at its artistic dependence on the New York museum

David D'Arcy