I SPENT a day last month searching for a mirage in the desert. Oil-rich Abu Dhabi plans to get into culture in a big way. It is building a Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim and Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre as a pair of brand-name museums the likes of which the world has never seen.
It is part of a [...]
Gehry’s Mirage
October 26th, 2009 1 Comment
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