Juan Ignacio Vidarte is stepping down from his role after more than 32 years. As he prepares to move on, he tells The Art Newspaper about the “transformative power of culture” and the difficulty of replicating the “Bilbao effect”

With museums in Bilbao and Venice poised to reopen, while New York remains in lockdown, Richard Armstrong, Juan Ignacio Vidarte and Karole Vail talk about weathering the financial crisis