I’m going to make a very rough metaphor, bare with me. Someone pompous once said that “you can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can’t take the Midwest out of the boy.” Similarly, the nouveau riche United Arab Emirates throws money at massive international projects to put themselves on the map (and [...]
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Louvre Abu Dhabi…really?
Posted in Exhibitions, News, tagged Esther Fainting Before Ahaseurus, Francis Bacon, Frank Gehry, Human Rights Watch, Jean Nouvel, Lord Norman Foster, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Piet Mondrian, United Arab Emirates, Yves St. Laurent, Zaha Hadid on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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