Centro Botín; photo by Enrico Cano, courtesy of Centro Botín
In Santander, about 60 miles west of Bilbao on Spain’s north coast, the new Centro Botín opened on Friday, June 23. The waterfront arts center was designed by Renzo Piano as a new regional museum along with the redevelopment of an urban park.
Ólafur Elíasson, Contact, 2014, installation view at Fondation Louis Vuitton; image courtesy of Studio Ólafur Elíasson / image © Iwan Baan
The art world was full of superlatives in 2014. New museums opened, fairs and auctions set records, and we added fairtigue, biennihilism, and crapstraction to our ArtSpeak vocabularies. With 2014 behind us, let’s review the best of the year and preview what’s ahead in 2015.
