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Between 17 September 2021 and 6 February 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosted the first retrospective exhibition in Spain dedicated to Alice Neel (1900–1984). Neel was born in Pennsylvania but, after a brief stay in Cuba, she spent most of her life in New York. Women's vulnerabilities, and, in particular, their emotional and physical struggles — especially those of underprivileged women like herself — are at the heart of her work.

Jai Alai frontons in Miami or Rhode Island? Although this may sound surprising today, during the 1960s and 1970s this Basque sport enjoyed a genuine golden age in the United States, with packed stadiums and television broadcasts that turned it into a mass phenomenon.

Art restoration is an eminently delicate process. With modern tools, however, we can restore sculptures, paintings, books and even buildings with incredible precision and surprising results.

It is almost impossible not to fall in love with the spectacle of light, sound and movement of video mapping. Many feel that this technique exists somewhere between technology and fantasy, and is a new striking way of making art. Meanwhile, industries such as the advertising sector already use it to promote their products.

Bringing together the pieces to be featured at an exhibition is a very sensitive process. It involves valuable and unique works of art, with the packaging and transportation of each the responsibility of specialist companies and professionals.

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the real, a Spanish silver coin, became a benchmark for global trade. Its history forms part of Spain's legacy in the history of the United States and a shared heritage that Iberdrola helps recover and promote through exhibitions such as 'Memory Regained' (Bilbao, 2017) and initiatives such as 'Unveiling Memories'.