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GAUDI versus GEHRY

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... un encuentro de titanes. Dibujando paralelos. "To calculate the exact cost to Euskadi taxpayers of the Bilbao Guggenheim is complicated, or perhaps the leadership wants it to be complicated. The figure usually mentioned is $100 million, which is equal to $56 US Dlls for each citizen. After paying for the building the Basques also agreed to pay the Guggenheim for using the Guggenheim name on the building. Furthermore, the Guggenheim Foundation chooses the art for the Bilbao museum. The survey of twentieth-century art that made up the initial exhibit seemed like leftovers from the Guggenheim warehouse." "The museum, with the exception of a few Chillida pieces, pays no homage to Basque art. Even Picasso's geat tribut to Basque suffering,  Guernica,  was not made available for the opening. Officials at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, where it hangs, said that it could not be moved because it was too delicate for the journey. But many sp