At 96 years old, the American Jasper Johns (Augusta, Georgia, 1930) remains one of the most important contemporary artists. He was one of the precursors of pop art, with paintings of United States flags and the bronze sculpture of two beer cans, but he is also remembered for Painting with Two Balls, a mockery of the testosteronic excesses of abstract expressionist artists, such as Pollock, De Kooning, and Rothko. These works are just the tip of the iceberg of Night driver, the major retrospective that the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is dedicating to him until October 12.

The crises museums are experiencing are multifaceted, including those of governance, funding, audiences, and social legitimacy—the latter exacerbated by the fact that the processes of decolonizing institutions and making them more pluralistic remain unfinished. Conditions for preserving works of art within a false sense of historical stability are becoming increasingly difficult. The situation can be even more disruptive: what if, instead of inert artifacts, the works are alive and require care? What if they are made with natural materials or are living organisms? The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao raises all these questions with a new exhibition, the ambitious Earth Arts

"I shop, therefore I am." "Your body is a battlefield." "We don't need another hero." "Your comfort is my silence." The subversive slogans with which American artist Barbara Kruger (Newark, New Jersey, 1945) has become famous over nearly fifty years remain fully relevant. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is the first in Spain to dedicate a major retrospective exhibition to her: Barbara Kruger. Another day. Another night. The artist and the curator, Lekha Hileman Waitoller, have conceived it as a monumental immersive experience, with rooms lined from top to bottom with text.