Guggenheim Bilbao

I traveled north to the Basque country and visited the Guggenheim Museum. It was exciting to encounter this Frank Gehry building with its wild contrast to the rest of the architecture in Bilbao. The Richard Serra installation was really overwhelming. It was a little frightening to walk through if you don't know what you are getting into. The center of the circular pieces were tranquil and consuming.
It was like the Rothko Chapel in a way. Being surrounded by the color and surface of this metal was really beautiful.
The Guggenheim had some good exhibits including a color painter room featuring some of my favorites, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Morris Lewis etc.
Sydney Pollack did a documentary called "Scetches of Frank Gehry" which shows Gehry designing this museum. It's a process involving bending and folding a bunch paper and talking about it.