Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art, this exhibition will feature a compelling selection of approximately 200 artworks culled from a range of private and public collections in the United States. The exhibition will be shown in four venues, two of which will be in China (Beijing and Shanghai) and will be the most significant display of American Art ever exhibited in China. The third location will be Moscow and the fourth the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Divided into six historical periods, the exhibition will demonstrate how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to a complex visual narrative of a nation during times of discovery, growth and experimentation.

On the occasion of its Tenth Anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has programmed for the fall of 2007 an exhibition designed to promote the creativity of contemporary Basque artists by inviting them to produce specific works that interact with the exhibition spaces of the Museum. The selection of works will demonstrate that the artists chosen are authors of international vocabularies and respond to and question the tensions of their specific locus. The fundamental points for the critical debate on which the selection of artists is based will therefore include tensions and hybridizations between what is local and what is global, as well as the dialogue between the universalist will of western modernism and the questioning of its values from multiple post-modern subjectivities.