Abu Dhabi: Human Rights Watch has issued a critical report on workers’ rights at the Saadiyat Island development, where branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim are being built. The US-based organisation said although medical care was now being provided for migrant labourers, other violations, such as passport confiscation, were ongoing. Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company said the study was outdated and based on a limited sample.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Major cultural institutions, including the National Gallery and the National Museum, may have to close as a result of lack of government funding and support. Employees at the National Museum, in Sarajevo, have not been paid for seven months. The crisis is mainly due to the Dayton Agreement, signed in 1995, which did not establish a culture ministry.
Dubai: The emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced plans to build an opera house and modern art museum. Government officials said the Dubai Modern Art Museum & Opera House District project “aims to further strengthen the UAE’s emerging role as the cultural hub of the region”.
France: The expanded Palais de Tokyo reopened in Paris last month. After a 10-month refurbishment, the contemporary art centre now fills the entire west wing of the 1930s art deco site overlooking the Seine.
Spain: The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid has signed a cultural cooperation agreement with the New York and Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros. The new partnership includes a long-term loan of part of the foundation’s Latin American art collection, which includes works by Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres-Garcia, to the Spanish museum in 2013.
US: Collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have pledged to donate about 300 works by 27 international artists, including Keith Tyson and Mark Wallinger, to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. About 500 works by 70 American artists will also be donated to the Whitney Museum of American Art
in New York.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, Reuters and the BBC
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Major cultural institutions, including the National Gallery and the National Museum, may have to close as a result of lack of government funding and support. Employees at the National Museum, in Sarajevo, have not been paid for seven months. The crisis is mainly due to the Dayton Agreement, signed in 1995, which did not establish a culture ministry.
Dubai: The emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced plans to build an opera house and modern art museum. Government officials said the Dubai Modern Art Museum & Opera House District project “aims to further strengthen the UAE’s emerging role as the cultural hub of the region”.
France: The expanded Palais de Tokyo reopened in Paris last month. After a 10-month refurbishment, the contemporary art centre now fills the entire west wing of the 1930s art deco site overlooking the Seine.
Spain: The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid has signed a cultural cooperation agreement with the New York and Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros. The new partnership includes a long-term loan of part of the foundation’s Latin American art collection, which includes works by Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres-Garcia, to the Spanish museum in 2013.
US: Collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have pledged to donate about 300 works by 27 international artists, including Keith Tyson and Mark Wallinger, to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. About 500 works by 70 American artists will also be donated to the Whitney Museum of American Art
in New York.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, Reuters and the BBC
