slave labor, personal freedoms limited to the right to shop and the right to fornicate (with foreign-national prostitutes – women excluded of course), no elections whatsoever, and world’s new center for arts and culture?
Premiere Guggenheim Exhibition Opens in Abu Dhabi under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces.
Willem de Kooning, Composition, 1955. Oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas, 201 x 175.6 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 55.1419. © 2009 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
On November 17, 2009, The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum opened at Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, as part of a program of art and cultural development leading up to the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum in 2013. The exhibition features more than fifty paintings from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, including Paul Cézanne’s Bend in the Road Through the Forest (1873–75), Willem de Kooning’s Composition (1955), Vasily Kandinsky’s Decisive Rose (1932), Piet Mondrian’s Composition 8 (1914), Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 110 (1971), and Jackson Pollock’s Untitled (Green Silver) (ca. 1949). On view through February 4, 2010, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), and under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces.
A rich roster of educational programming, including the panel discussion “From Private to Public: Patronage and the Museum in the Modern Era,” moderated by Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, accompanies the exhibition. Additional programs include a lecture on the early history of the Guggenheim Museum with Karole Vail, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, and a conversation with The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum co-curators Susan Davidson and Valerie Hillings.
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