Guggenheim Bilbao asks for €100,000 to restore Jeff Koons’ Puppy

Museum launches first crowdfunding campaign to repair structure of US artist's 13-metre west highland terrier

It's a crowdfunding campaign seeking to pull on heartstrings and save a puppy in bad shape, but this request by the Guggenheim in Bilbao is on a different scale. The museum is asking for 100,000 in donations to restore the American artist Jeff Koons' 13-metre-tall Puppy.

The flower-covered sculpture of a west highland terrier stands at the entrance to the museum. Its vibrant 38,000 plants, which include petunias, impatiens, marigolds and begonias, are replaced twice a year.