site of an explosive tumble of nine cars decked out in blinking lights—an installation that Guggenheim director Thomas Krens says "may be the best artistic transformation of the Frank Lloyd Wright space we've ever seen." But unbeknownst
the puzzle in place, Abu Dhabi went after the original source of Saadiyat's inspiration: the Guggenheim. At first Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, was not impressed with the Gensler master plan. It had all the components
lined up the Louvre in Paris. Then they approached Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundationinitially get involved in the Saadiyat Island project? Thomas Krens: It was probably a kind of coincidence of two objectives
the way that works. MASS MoCA was cooked up in the late '80s by the Guggenheim Museum’s expansionist director Thomas Krens and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis as part of regional economic redevelopment. But the proposed megamuseum (a
frightened art lovers. Indeed, it takes an adventurous patron to do esthetic justice to the notoriously forceful Serra. Thomas Krens, the globetrotting director of the Guggenheim Foundation and its main museum in Manhattan, is one of the few up to
frightened art lovers. Indeed, it takes an adventurous patron to do esthetic justice to the notoriously forceful Serra. Thomas Krens, the globetrotting director of the Guggenheim Foundation and its main museum in Manhattan, is one of the few up to
Guggenheim--founded in 1939 as a "museum of non-objective painting" and until the advent of go-go director Thomas Krens in 1988 a strictly modern and contemporary institution--came to mount such an encyclopedic, historical show. Answer
in Las Vegas, the fastest-growing city in the country. Sound tacky? Even the museum's unorthodox director, Thomas Krens, was skeptical at first. But he learned that 1 million people a year paid $12.50 each to see Steve Wynn's modest
of the city." Then he put $68 million of city money where his mouth was. The Guggenheim's ambitious director, Thomas Krens, has been lobbying to re- create the success of the museum's branch in Bilbao, Spain, with a Gehry building in
cultural partner, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. So where has the Gugg's globe-trotting director, Thomas Krens, set his sights for his next colonization? The land of the bossa nova. On Nov. 15, at a Guggenheim gala in New